Amazon's Alexa reads a story in the voice of a child's deceased grandma

One of Amazon's Alexa-enabled Echo devices

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Amazon's intelligent, voice-enabled assistant, Alexa, has become an integral part of everyday experiences. Alexa gets more than one billion requests per week, Amazon said Wednesday, while customers have access to more than 100,000 Alexa skills.

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Now, the technology giant is developing a new capability for Alexa: the ability to communicate using others' voices, so she can help users remember loved ones who have passed away. On Wednesday at the re:MARS conference (Amazon's event for machine learning, automation, robotics, and space), Amazon's Rohit Prasad briefly described the skill. 

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