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Old 08-27-2023, 10:57 AM   #42
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I do listen by way of Alexa sometimes, and it's probably the most natural voice I've heard. It's just that it gets old...the same voice for everything, and one many of us have heard for years. As far as I can tell, you can change the voice for all other interactions, but when you ask Alexa to read, it always goes to that default voice.

I cannot change Alexa voice at all, much less for reading. I do have some foreign language books, presumably that voice is different (if it works at all) but then of course I'd need to have better skills to understand it.

There is a Help topic that says that you can change the Alexa voice using the Alexa app. However, none of my Alexa devices (3 Fire tablets and a Fire TV) show such an option. I'm guessing that you need a newer Echo to be able to do it.

The odd part about Amazon Polly is that the APIs let you select voices easily:

https://aws.amazon.com/polly/features/?nc=sn&loc=3
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