Alexa, who are you? New book identifies Amazon’s secret voiceover artist
by Oliver Milman in New York from on (#5HPVJ)
Brad Stone writes that voice for Amazon's virtual assistant, which the company has never revealed, is Colorado-based Nina Rolle
The voice of Alexa, the virtual assistant developed by Amazon, is provided by Nina Rolle, a Colorado-based voiceover artist, according to a new book.
Amazon has never revealed who provides the default female voice that responds to commands and questions given to Alexa, but the author Brad Stone said he identified the voice as Rolle's after canvasing the professional voiceover community" for his new book, Amazon Unbound: Jeff Bezos and the Invention of a Global Empire.
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