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Irish Mirror
Irish Mirror
National
Michelle Cullen

'Alexa, who's yer man?' - Amazon introduce Irish accent for Echo devices

Amazon has announced that it is introducing an Irish accent for its Echo smart devices in Ireland.

The native accent is now available on thousands of smart speakers and other tech gadgets and is only be available in a female voice for the time being.

Amazon has spent months ensuring that, when activated, certain sounds will differ from their British and American variants. For example, words ending with "ght" will sound more like the Dublin "sh" than the British "t".

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