Todd Spangler NY Digital Editor Alexa will no longer swear a blue streak for you in the voice of Samuel L. Jackson. Amazon has discontinued sales of the special Alexa celebrity-voice add-on packs from Jackson, Melissa McCarthy and Shaquille O’Neal, which have been able to tell jokes, report on the weather and deliver other responses to users of Alexa-enabled devices.
According to notices on Amazon’s site, the trio of Alexa celebrity voice “personalities” are no longer available for purchase.
The Alexa celebrity voice packs had cost $4.99 each. For customers who already bought them, the Alexa voices for McCarthy and Shaq are set to expire on Sept.
30, 2023, while the Jackson voice add-on for Alexa was deactivated as of April 30. Introduced in 2019, the voice pack for Samuel L.
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