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Amazon unveils a new AI voice model, Nova Sonic
Amazon has unveiled a new AI voice model, Nova Sonic, the company claims is competitive with frontier voice models from OpenAI and Google.
Amazon claims that Sonic’s performance is competitive with frontier voice models from OpenAI and Google on benchmarks measuring speed, speech recognition, and conversational quality. This capability helps Nova Sonic “know” when it needs to fetch real-time information from the internet, parse a proprietary data source, or take action in an external application — and use the appropriate tool to do it. On a benchmark measuring speech recognition across languages and dialects, Multilingual LibriSpeech, Amazon says Nova Sonic achieved a word error rate (WER) of just 4.2% when averaged across English, French, Italian, German, and Spanish.
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