Move over, Alexa: Amazon launches new realtime voice model Nova Sonic for third-party enterprise development

Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More Amazon is best known as an e-commerce giant and then somewhere perhaps slightly further down the list of notable offerings is its Alexa AI voice assistant product, which just got a big intelligence upgrade last month thanks in part to Amazon Nova and Amazon’s investment Anthropic. Now Alexa will have to make space for a new Amazon voice AI sibling: today the company is introducing Amazon Nova Sonic, a new foundation model designed to allow third-party app developers to build realtime, naturalistic, conversational voice interactivity to their products using Amazon’s web platform Bedrock. It’s available now via a bi-directional streaming application programming interface (API). And actually, Amazon has already incorporated some portions of it — a speech encoder that provides representation and a speech synthesizer — into the new Alexa model, Alexa+. “This app ... Read full article.