Now, Amazon has just introduced its new "foundation" AI voice model called Nova Sonic. And it really makes Alexa sound like she's living way in the past.

A new speech-to-speech AI model from Amazon, called Nova Sonic, unifies speech recognition and generation to deliver more natural voice interactions — part of the Seattle tech giant’s broader effort to develop human-like intelligence in competition with Google,

Amazon has unveiled a new AI voice model, Nova Sonic, the company claims is competitive with frontier voice models from OpenAI and Google.