Move over, Alexa: Amazon launches new realtime voice model Nova Sonic for third-party enterprise development
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Summary
Amazon has unveiled its new Amazon Nova Sonic voice AI, which it is offering to third-party developers to build real-time, conversational voice capabilities into their products using Amazon’s Bedrock web platform.
It combines three traditional separate models; speech recognition, language processing and speech synthesis into one, with the aim of making voice interactions more naturalistic.
It can handle two-way conversations and is able to understand when the user pauses, hesitates or interrupts and responds fluidly, while also integrating with other systems and proprietary tools.
Amazon said that it outperforms competitors such as OpenAI’s GPT-4o and Google’s Gemini Flash 2.0 on American and British English, and is nearly 80% cheaper.
It is now available to developers via Amazon Bedrock.