Well, now it is possible. You can talk to Alexa now without disturbing any of your family members. Once you activate “Whispered Responses” on Alexa, you can murmur the commands, she will whisper back at you. This feature will help people with little babies in their homes to communicate with Alexa. This new feature “Whispered Responses” will enhance the experience with the smart speaker and Alexa.
Note: If you have activated whispered response you do not necessarily have to talk in a soft voice all the time. If you talk in the normal or regular tone, it will respond in a similar way. In this post, we have listed the steps to activate whispered response feature on Alexa.
Steps To Enable Whispered Response On Alexa
There are various ways to enable the whispered responses on Alexa to change the regular voice to soft-spoken one. You can just ask Alexa, “Alexa enable whisper mode,” and once it is activated, Alexa will confirm that the Whispered responses is now activated.
The second way to enable the whispered responses and start talking to it in soft tone by altering the whispered responses settings under Alexa app on your smartphone. Follow the steps below to do the same:
Step 1: Launch the Alexa app.
Step 2: Go to the main menu & choose Settings.
Step 3: Choose Alexa Account
Step 4: Choose “Alexa Voice Responses”
Step 5: Activate “Whispered Responses” by toggling the switch to the right side.
How Does It Work?
Whispered Responses uses LSTMs (long short-term memory neural networks), which are utilized in speech recognition. The end pointing process of Alexa is also significant for whispered responses. End-point is used by Alexa to recognize when a user has finished giving a command & anticipate acknowledgment. Silence is also an input which is considered to detect whisper. By inspecting peak on short-term memory neural networks confidence data over frames of a command and making an optimum adaptation. However, the issue was resolved by Alexa speech scientists and now Alexa can comprehend and acknowledge whether it is regular speech or a whisper.
This way, you can activate whispered responses and give a command and get a response from Alexa. Until now, Echo devices execute better in whispered responses than all other devices in the smart home speakers.
