Now, Amazon has just introduced its new "foundation" AI voice model called Nova Sonic. And it really makes Alexa sound like she's living way in the past.

A new speech-to-speech AI model from Amazon, called Nova Sonic, unifies speech recognition and generation to deliver more natural voice interactions — part of the Seattle tech giant’s broader effort to develop human-like intelligence in competition with Google,

Nova Sonic is Amazon’s real-time AI voice answer to Google’s Gemini and OpenAI’s GPT-4o Amazon is showing off new AI technology this week, including its take on a more conversational voice model to better compete with things like Gemini Live and OpenAI’s Advanced Voice Mode and an update to its model that can generate video.