With the huge success of Alexa as Amazon's version of a virtual assistant, the company decided to take its next level and introduce a new voice that will tell the time, predict the weather, and even tell you a joke if you wanted to laugh. Amazon is happy to introduce American actor and film producer Samuel L. Jackson as the very first celebrity actor to possess your Alexa devices.
SLJ as the First Celebrity Actor to Voice in Alexa
Back in September, Amazon already announced its launching of the store's Celebrity Voice Program to pick for the newest voice of Alexa devices. On their announcement, it was said that Samuel L. Jackson will be their first actor to team up with the company is introducing a new voice to replace Alexa initially. Amazon explained that the neural text-to-speech technology (Neural TTS) will be used in turning the voice of SLJ into a virtual assistant.
What Can Samuel L. Jackson Do as a Virtual Assistant?
There's a bunch of different things that SLJ can do like your new virtual assistant. However, Amazon already explained that SLJ will not totally replace Alexa but only will become a featured voice in their devices. Other than this, SLJ can do most of the things Alexa does with Echo devices.
Now that Christmas is here, you can now have Samuel L. Jackson to greet you a personal 'Merry Christmas,' and he will even sing you a lively with a deep voice version of 'Jingle Bells.' If that's not enough, you can also use the power of the Avengers and Marvel to get your children to sleep, or else Nick Fury will teach them how.
SLJ would not also mind answering some personal questions like his experiences shooting for Star Wars, or will there be another twist in the Marvel world that will make Iron Man alive. More than these, Samuel L. Jackson will be happy to tell you what time is it or even get the weather update from the Internet.
How to Setup SLJ's Voice in Echo Devices?
Since it is the first time that a celebrity voice will be featured in Alexa devices, you might as well give it a shot right now in Amazon, and here are the steps on how to do that.
- Open Alexa.
- Start saying "Alexa, introduce me to Samuel L. Jackson"
- Alexa will explain the cost of SLJ's voice of $1 charge with tax fees and ask you if you are going to continue purchase
- Say "Yes"
- Choose whether you wanted SLJ on a clean version or explicit version
- Make Alexa command SLJ through by saying "Alexa, ask Samuel to [command]"
Other Celebrities to Expect as your Virtual Assistant
Though Samuel L. Jackson is the very first of Amazon's celebrity voices featured in Alexa, he was not the very first celebrity to take over the virtual assistant job. In 2018, American singer and songwriter John Legend was featured as one of the new voices in Google Assistant. Aside from SLJ, Amazon already announced that there will be more actors to expect soon in your Echo devices.
