voice assistants
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April 28, 2026
product updateAmazon Web Services
Amazon Nova 2 Sonic Unifies Speech Recognition, Reasoning, and TTS in Single Streaming Model
Amazon Web Services released technical guidance for migrating text agents to voice assistants using Amazon Nova 2 Sonic, a native speech-to-speech model that combines automatic speech recognition, reasoning, tool calling, and text-to-speech in a single bidirectional streaming interface. The model supports asynchronous tool calling and built-in voice activity detection for handling interruptions.