Amazon seeks to crack accents for updated Alexa voice assistant

Amazon is quietly working behind the scenes to build in ability to distinguish between different accents for its Alexa voice assistant, potentially enabling it to differentiate between different voices.
Reports in Time suggest that the new feature is being referenced internally as ‘Voice ID’ and is being designed to allow certain commands to be restricted to particular people such as only allowing the primary account holder to make purchases.
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