Todd Spangler NY Digital EditorAmazon is packing two more celebrities into its Alexa digital assistant.Starting today, you can have Alexa speak in the voices of Shaquille O’Neal or Melissa McCarthy, replacing Alexa’s default female voice.
Owners of Alexa devices can ask Shaq or McCarthy to tell them the weather, play songs, tell jokes, read poems or stories, and more (like asking Shaq to rap or soliciting a funny story from McCarthy).The O’Neal and McCarthy voices for Alexa are available to customers in the U.S.
for $4.99 each. For Amazon, the deals are designed to add another selling point to its family of Echo smart speakers and other Alexa-enabled devices as well as generating some incremental revenue.“I just wanted to add my.
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