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I suppose the lack of visual cues probably hinders things in that regard.
It's good, but it still sounds fake to me, but in a different way. The voice itself sounds like a human, undoubtedly. But the cadence and the rhythm of speaking are off. It sounds like someone who isn't a podcaster trying to speak in the personality of a podcaster. It just sounds like someone trying too hard and speaking in an unnatural way.
I asked it if it could whisper, and it replied in full voice, ”I’m whispering to you right now”.
I did manage to get it to output "la la la la" and then it kind of sang them with a random melody.
It also can't say things loud and its idea of whispering for me was to say "pst".
Still apart from that it's very impressive!
AI voice is an overwhelmingly harmful technology. It's biggest use will be to hurt people.
I would say most command and control voice interactions are going to be like buying a coffee — the parameters of the transaction are well known, so it’s just about fine tuning the match between what the user wants and what the robot has to do. A small minority of these interactions are going to be like a restaurant server — chit chat, pleasantries, some information gathering, followed by issuing direct orders. The tr…
For example tech support is in large parts about making the caller feel heard and getting them to do trouble shooting steps without feeling stupid. Sales is in large parts about getting the right person to talk to you and to keep them talking to you.
It's very good, really impressive demo. My feedback would be, Maya needs to keep quiet a little longer after asking a question. She would ask something, then as I thought about my reply, already be on to the next thing. It left me with the impression she was a babbler (which is not an unrealistic model of how humans are, but it would be cool to be able to dial such traits up or down to taste). I suppose the lack of v…
So unless the system has a lot of engineering and/or training put into the main model being able to recognize exactly when it should keep waiting versus a real response, it will just see something like "user: empty response" or "user: uhmm" and assume it is supposed to respond to that.
We aren't even talking about adding laughing, singing/rap or beatboxing.
The intelligence of the model is very low though. I asked it about catcalling and it started to talk about cats!
Incredible!