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Amazon Alexa-Enabled Echo Devices Get Live Translation Support for Six Languages Including Hindi

Amazon is updating its Alexa voice assistant with a new feature that would users to use Live Translation. The feature uses Amazon’s speech recognition technology and neural machine translation technology to work and supports translating between English and French, Spanish, Hindi, Portuguese, German or Italian. To use the Live Translation, users would need to activate Alexa with the command, “Alexa, translate Hindi.” Users will hear a beep, after which they would need to speak out the sentence or phrase. With the Live Translation feature on Alexa-powered Echo devices, the company would hope to give stiff competitions to Google, which already offers similar translation features with its Google Assistant-enabled Nest and other devices.

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