April 8, 2025:
Amazon Launches Advanced AI Voice Model Nova Sonic - Amazon launches Nova Sonic, an advanced AI voice model competing with OpenAI and Google. Accessible through Bedrock, the platform excels in speed, speech recognition, and conversational quality, with a low word error rate of 4.2% in multiple languages. Nova Sonic enhances digital assistant Alexa+ and provides developers with advanced features like multi-lingual transcription and user request routing.
Focused on artificial general intelligence, Amazon plans to extend Nova Sonic's capabilities beyond voice to incorporate image, video, and sensory data. This expansion aims to broaden Amazon's AI-driven product strategy.
