Chatbots · June 2022Gaffe level: Typo
Alexa Learned to Mimic Anyone's Voice, Including Grandma
Amazon announced plans to let Alexa mimic anyone's voice, including dead relatives, from less than a minute of audio. The deepfake alarm bells went off before the feature even shipped.
Source: Reuters
AI Avatars Translate Speech Into Kenyan Sign Language in Real Time
Kenyan engineer Elly Savatia built Terp360, an AI platform that translates speech into Kenyan Sign Language in real time using 3D avatars, with more than 2,300 signs recorded alongside deaf Kenyans. It won the 2025 Africa Prize for Engineering Innovation, and the team has released an open dataset of nearly 12,000 sign-language motion sequences.
Source: The Eastleigh Voice