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Alexa will soon be able to raise the tone if the ambient noise is too high
Amazon is starting to integrate a feature that allows Alexa to increase the sound of her voice based on ambient noise. This feature is called “adaptive volume”. It is being deployed in the United States. No information was provided concerning a deployment in other geographical areas.
Imagine the scene. You cook with your family. You prepare a nice little dish. The oven is on. Food is browning in a frying pan. Water boils in a saucepan. And you realize that you are going to finish the flour by making the shortcrust pastry for the dessert. Fortunately, Alexa is there. You ask him to add ” plain flour ” in your ” shopping list », So as not to forget to buy more.
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But now, with the sounds of cooking, appliances and discussions, impossible to hear the response of Amazon’s virtual assistant. Has flour been added to your shopping list? Hard to say. In noisy environments, it is difficult to hear Alexa, because the volume control, now manual, is adapted to an environment which is usually less noisy. To improve the experience with Echo speakers, Amazon announces the arrival of a new feature for Alexa.
Alexa will automatically increase the sound in a noisy room
This function is called ” adaptive volume ” (Where Adaptive Volume in original version). It simply allows you to adapt the sound volume of Alexa according to the ambient noise. If the room is noisy, Alexa will raise your voice. Simply. For this, the Echo uses built-in microphones to analyze the environment, allowing the volume to be adjusted accordingly. Of course, the volume returns to its original level if the noise returns to normal.
Adaptive Volume is being rolled out in the United States (as always, Americans are getting a preview of this kind of functional innovation). Amazon has not provided any confirmation for the international, even if we believe that nothing prevents the firm from quickly deploying this function everywhere in the world. To activate it, two options. Or go to the settings of the Alexa application on smartphone and tablet. Or simply say to an Echo speaker the following sentence: ” Alexa, turn on adaptive volume “.
This adaptive feature is interesting because it shows how Alexa adapts based on contextual information. We have had proof of this on numerous occasions, especially when Amazon introduced the automatic translation of conversations function or the one that allows the virtual assistant to turn on a device according to the habits of its users.
Source: The Verge