Do people still answer their (cell)phones nowadays?
If my day was interrupted by a call from a number I recognized and I got an AI generated voice, I would be pissed.
Just because you can, it doesn't mean you should...
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#12Even as someone that’s generally pretty libertarian, this is an area that I hope gets regulated quickly. A person needs to have the right to know if they’re talking to a real person or an AI system.
Personally I’ve used ElevenLabs to narrate some videos.
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#13Our company https://echo.win/ provides inbound phone call automation and management using AI for businesses. Generative voices are going to add a lot of value to our product.
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#14I’d like a TTS which is emotionally expressive and can be used for video game characters.
It's sad there is still not a free, open source, good and trivial to install TTS on Linux. Espeak often still remains the only practical option
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#15Do people still answer their (cell)phones nowadays? If my day was interrupted by a call from a number I recognized and I got an AI generated voice, I would be pissed. Just because you can, it doesn't mean you should...
What if you had just filled out a form in an app for help. Maybe you got a text and then a call... would you be pissed then?
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#16I'm playing around with it, because I am looking for things I can do with AI to perhaps earn a second income, switch from being a basic employee to working for myself, the tech is very good, but not quite there yet I don't think, it's extremely close though.
While ElevenLabs seems the best, it's a shame it lacks the ability to edit the clips a little more like some of the other tools have, for speeding up certain words, making them louder or adding in some emotion. The other tools do this far better, however they sound robotic, i'm exploring if this could be achieved with some manual editing.
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#17Do people still answer their (cell)phones nowadays? If my day was interrupted by a call from a number I recognized and I got an AI generated voice, I would be pissed. Just because you can, it doesn't mean you should...
What if you had just filled out a form in an app for help. Maybe you got a text and then a call... would you be pissed then?
If I was expecting a call, then no...I would not be pissed. If they explicitly said I would be receiving a call from an AI customer support person, then no. If I was expecting a human and got an AI, then yes. I think it is about user expectations in this situation.
But, I am not sure this is what the OP was hinting at.
Also, if you are going to use an AI to help me with an app, why not just deliver the help...through the app? Why the extra step?