Alexa is already multilingual but Amazon wants to make her more fluent, report says

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Alexa is brushing up on her language skills.

Amazon's voice-enabled digital assistant will reportedly soon become an on-the-go real-time language translator.

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Alexa's English, German, and Japanese skills will need to be rounded out when she becomes what Yahoo reports as a "multilingual assistant who can help in almost any situation." 

An Alexa "skill" already translates short sentences in English into 36 languages including Arabic, Hindi, Indonesian, Polish, Thai and many more — but just short phrases and words. Context and a more sophisticated take on culture will make the assistant useful in real-time moments, as Yahoo reported based on several unnamed sources close to the project. Read more...

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