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Alexa now runs on more powerful cloud instances, opening the door for complex new features – Techradar
Alexa can now handle more complex algorithms
Amazon’s cloud computing voice service Alexa is about to get a whole lot more powerful as the Amazon Alexa team has migrated the vast majority of its GPU-based machine inference workloads to Amazon EC2 Inf1 instances.
These new instances are powered by AWS Inferentia and the upgrade has resulted in 25 percent lower end-to-end latency and 30 percent lower cost compared to GPU-based instances for Alexa’s text-to-speech workloads.
As a result of switching to EC2 Inf1 instances, Alexa engineers will…
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