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Thrilled to introduce a new addition to the Amazon Nova family of foundation models – Amazon Nova Sonic – a speech-to-speech model that makes it dramatically easier for developers to build voice-powered applications and AI agents that are more useful, natural, and engaging. Since launching Nova, we have been moving at lightning speed, guided by our customers’ needs. One thing we’ve heard loud and clear: building voice applications is far too complex. It’s like playing telephone between three different models – speech recognition to convert voice to text, a language model to understand and generate a text response, and text-to-speech to generate voice again. Even if it works, nuance is often lost, making the conversation with the AI feel unnatural and disconnected. Nova Sonic solves this by unifying all three steps – speech recognition, understanding, and generation – into a single architecture. This allows it to model not just what is spoken, but how it’s spoken, enabling more context-aware and dynamic responses. Nova Sonic also produces a text transcript so that developers can easily integrate their tools, APIs, and proprietary knowledge into their voice application. With Nova Sonic, developers can reimagine building AI agents that truly understand context, maintain natural conversation flow, and take action on user’s behalf. End users can simply say, “I need to cancel my flight this weekend,” and have natural back-and-forth conversation about their options. Available in American and British English in Amazon Bedrock today, Nova Sonic is the most accurate, fastest, and least expensive model in its class (and there are only a few in this space today). Customers like ASAPP, Education First, Stats Perform, and our own internal teams with early access to Nova Sonic, are ready to move from prototypes to production in a wide variety of use cases, including customer service automation, education, healthcare, and sports. Can't wait to see what developers will build with Nova Sonic to make AI truly accessible to everyone! https://amzn.to/3Gd2Mj5
This is incredibly exciting, Rohit! How do you envision Nova Sonic evolving to meet the creative use cases developers might come up with, especially in fields like healthcare and education?
Great. When will Nova Sonic be available in Spanish? Thanks Rohit Prasad
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Game-changer for devs building real-time agents. Exciting to see voice-to-voice evolve into something so seamless. Looking forward to see how this shapes enterprise AI interfaces!
Nova Sonic is a huge step forward—love how it simplifies voice AI! 🙌 As voice tech grows, keeping it secure matters too.
Really exciting progress—making voice applications more natural and less complex is a huge leap forward. Curious to see how Nova Sonic gets used across industries like healthcare and education!
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2wRohit Prasad, This is such a cool update! I’ve used Claude and Haiku on Bedrock before, and while voice apps have always felt exciting, stitching together ASR → LLM → TTS was definitely... messy. Nova Sonic solving that in one shot? That’s huge — especially for devs trying to build responsive, real-time agents. Really curious to try this out and see how it handles more nuanced or emotional speech inputs in practical use cases.