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Groq and PlayAI just made voice AI sound way more human — here’s how

Groq partners with PlayAI to deliver Dialog, an emotionally intelligent text-to-speech model that runs 10x faster than real-time speech, including the Middle East's first Arabic voice AI model.

The partnership combines PlayAI’s expertise in voice AI with Groq’s specialized processing infrastructure, creating what the companies claim is one of the most natural-sounding and responsive text-to-speech systems available. “We built a novel architecture that we call an ‘ adaptive speech contextualizer ‘ (ASC), which allows the model to use the full context and history of a conversation,” said Mahmoud Felfel, co-founder and CEO of PlayAI, in an interview with VentureBeat. By addressing the technical challenges of latency and natural speech patterns, Groq and PlayAI may have removed significant barriers to wider adoption of voice AI in enterprise settings.

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