People use Alexa’s translation capabilities to taunt Boris Johnson with NSFW-sounding comments from the AI-powered smart speaker.

Mischievous social media users have lately discovered the dulcet tones of Alexa’s Welsh voice when you ask the gadget to translate sentences. One popular translation appears to be "Boris Johnson carrots 100."

Alexa can now understand Welsh

Seren Global/ NFW | Use Alexa to translate live conversations between two languages

Welsh has been one of the few languages that Amazon Alexa has never supported. Mobilise Cloud, a company based in Swansea, is the first in the world to develop the technology that enables Alexa to comprehend the Welsh language. The technical challenges involved in ensuring that the Alexa system could understand Welsh commands were so formidable that it’s not surprising that no one has accomplished this.

Y Pod provides the Welsh language material for the Alexa system. The capacity of Amazon Alexa to comprehend Welsh has the potential to make technology accessible to thousands of Welsh speakers.

As an example of the technology’s use, S4C has released a new ability for Amazon Alexa called Welsh Language Podcasts, which allows users to search for a particular material in Welsh. Because speech technology is more sanitary than touch-enabled gadgets, the number of individuals utilizing it is projected to expand considerably in response to the coronavirus.

A particular Welsh phrase has gone viral

RAY PRINCE/ AMAZON | A TikToker shares what happens when you say 100 in Welsh to Alexa

As illustrated in a video uploaded by TikTok user DJ Markyrush, asking your Amazon device to "say coffee bean 100 in Welsh" responds with an offensive translation.

The video has received over 235,100 views and 4,600 comments to date. Some individuals confessed that they had also attempted the same action, while others commented on the translation’s humor.

However, Siri on an iPhone and Google Translate offers similar translation capabilities for folks who do not have Alexa. Gruff Rhys's band, Ffa Coffi Pawb, which translates to "Everyone's Coffee Beans," but a play on words may indicate something else, was responsible for a similar mistake among Welsh-language music fans a long time ago.

Alexa's live translation feature

PA Wire/ PA Images | People have been getting creative in discovering ways to test the glitches in Alexa

Amazon introduced Alexa's new Live Translation capability, which enables persons speaking in various languages to interact with each other as Alexa acts as an interpreter and translates both sides of the discussion.

A client may now launch a translation session for a pair of languages by asking Alexa to do so. Once the session has begun, clients are free to speak phrases and sentences in any language. Alexa will automatically determine the spoken language and translate both sides of the conversation.

Amazon introduced Alexa's new Live Translation capability, which enables persons speaking in various languages to interact with each other as Alexa acts as an interpreter and translates both sides of the discussion.

A client may now launch a translation session for a pair of languages by asking Alexa to do so. Once the session has begun, clients are free to speak phrases and sentences in any language. Alexa will automatically determine the spoken language and translate both sides of the conversation.