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Samuel L. Jackson Lands Alexa Voice Gig

  • Variety, Thursday, September 26, 2019 5:18 PM
Samuel L. Jackson will be the first celebrity voice of Amazon’s Alexa, a cloud-based digital assistant. More celebrity guest voices will be added for the platform starting in 2020. “The Jackson 'voice pack' for Alexa will be available later this year for the special intro price of 99 cents — and users can select either clean or explicit modes,” according to Variety. If you ask Google Home “What’s that famous quote from ‘Snakes On A Plane’?” you might get an idea of what “explicit” refers to.

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