Stupid Alexa trick: Speaking French with a horrible American accent
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Raymond
Here’s a stupid Alexa trick.
Use the Alexa app to set the language to something other than English, say, French.
Ask Alexa a question. It will respond in French.
Use the Alexa app to set the language to US-English.
Say, “Alexa, repeat that.”
Alexa will repeat the French response, but using the US-English speech synthesizer, which means it will be speaking French words with a horrible American accent.
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Or type French words in Microsoft Word and have Microsoft Zira read it.
Aren’t you Microsoft fellas required to “eat your own dog food” after all?
But that’s not as funny because it’s not Alexa doing the speaking.
How about the less stupid trick, to get Alexa to speak English in a sexy(?) French accent?