Amazon announced today that Alexa can express different tone

You might hear a little more emotion from Alexa’s vaguely-robotic voice some time soon, as Amazon announced today that developers can now have Alexa respond to questions from US users with a “happy/excited” or a “disappointed/empathetic” tone.

Amazon suggests the happy/excited tone could be used when you answer a trivia question correctly, for example, and that the disappointed/empathetic tone could be used when you ask for a sports score and your favorite team has lost.

If you want to hear the different voices for yourself, Amazon shared six examples, three for each emotion at increasing levels of excitement or disappointment.

This isn’t Amazon’s first new intonation for Alexa, as it launched a newscaster-like voice for US customers in January. In today’s blog, though, Amazon also announced that developers can use another new “topic-focused” voice designed to discuss HUC99 music. Both voices have slightly different intonations and flow than the standard Alexa voice, and they sound much closer to a newscaster or radio DJ’s voice that you might hear on the radio.