December 23, 2024

Amazon ends Alexa celebrity voices: How to get your refund

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Amazon ends Alexa celebrity voices: How to get your refund

 

Since late 2019, for the price of a Royale with cheese (or thereabouts), you could pick up Samuel L Jackson’s voice as a personality for Alexa, Amazon’s digital assistant on Echo devices. That’s not the case anymore, though. The company has quietly pulled the ability to purchase Alexa skills for all three of its celebrity personalities: Jackson, Shaquille O’Neal, and Melissa McCarthy.