Amazon Nova Sonic
Amazon Nova Sonic is a proprietary Amazon foundation model. The initial Nova spoken-dialogue model unifies speech recognition, contextual language understanding, and speech generation. It targets conversational assistants with natural prosody, interruptibility, and tool use, rather than simply converting speech to transcripts. The model is provided through Amazon Bedrock streaming interfaces. Nova 2 Sonic is a later, separately named generation. Amazon has not published the model’s parameter count or detailed network architecture. Responses can contain unsupported claims, and preview/service availability varies by region and customer access.
2025-04-08
Undisclosed
Proprietary
Specifications
- Architecture
- Undisclosed
- License
- Proprietary
- Type
- multimodal
- Modalities
- textaudio
Benchmark Scores
Advanced Specifications
- Model Family
- Nova
- API Access
- Available
- Chat Interface
- Not Available
Capabilities & Limitations
- Capabilities
- spoken dialoguemultimodal understanding
- Known Limitations
- Application infrastructure controls real-time latencyLimited supported languages at launch
- Notable Use Cases
- enterprise assistantscustomer supportagent applications
- Tool Use Support
- Yes