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The AI companions you can have conversations with
A new breed of talking AI systems are now available for increasingly realistic two-way chats.
"People might say, we've had voice in technology for ages, and they're probably thinking of Alexa," says David Reid, a professor in AI at Liverpool Hope University, and the man who just happens to be my Liverpool-obsessed husband. "Our tools can take into account the spirit of a sentence, and how the words connect to each other," says Mati Staniszewski, the boss of Eleven Labs, a UK tech firm that has created 40 AI voices across gender, age and accent. Trevor Cox, a professor of acoustic engineering at the University of Salford, says that the developers of conversational AI will likely avoid strong, regional accents.
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