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Amazon Debuts Nova Sonic, Its Most Advanced AI Voice Model

The unified voice AI, now live via Amazon Bedrock, sets new benchmarks in speed, cost-efficiency, and conversational naturalness.

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Amazon has launched Nova Sonic, a new AI voice model built for faster, more accurate, and natural conversations.
Andy Jassy, chief executive officer of Amazon.com Inc., speaks during an unveiling event in New York, US, on Wednesday, Feb. 26, 2025. Amazon has rebooted Alexa with artificial intelligence, marking the biggest overhaul of the voice-activated assistant since its introduction over a decade ago. Photographer: Michael Nagle/Bloomberg via Getty Images
Amazon has unveiled its new human-like AI voice model, Nova Sonic.

Overview

  • Nova Sonic combines speech recognition, language understanding, and speech generation into a single model for seamless, human-like voice interactions.
  • The model is available through Amazon Bedrock’s bi-directional streaming API, enabling developers to integrate it into third-party applications.
  • Nova Sonic outperforms competitors with a 4.2% word error rate, 1.09-second latency, and nearly 80% lower cost compared to OpenAI’s GPT-4o.
  • It excels in multilingual and noisy environments, preserving tone, cadence, and context for natural conversation even with interruptions or accents.
  • Already powering Amazon's upgraded Alexa+ assistant, Nova Sonic is part of Amazon’s broader roadmap toward artificial general intelligence (AGI).