VentureBeat April 8, 2025
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 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).
Obvious use cases include customer support and service, guidance, information retrieval, and entertainment.
A unified approach
Nova Sonic addresses...
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