Todd Spangler NY Digital EditorSamuel L. Jackson’s profanity-laced persona on the Alexa voice assistant is getting a major [expletive deleted] upgrade.The actor’s voice skill on Alexa, which Amazon introduced a year ago, is adding over 30,000 new responses on the platform with new jokes, roasts, stories and other content.
Based on popular demand, that includes five times the amount of explicit content. And he’s getting Alexa’s first celebrity “wake word,” letting customers say “Hey, Samuel” to invoke Jackson’s iconic baritone voice on Alexa-enabled devices.As part of Jackson’s new repertoire on Alexa, if you ask “Hey Samuel, roast me” you will get responses including “Why the f— do you want to be roasted?
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