- By Ashish Singh
- Tue, 24 Sep 2024 11:32 AM (IST)
- Source:Reuters
Meta AI Chatbot has been one of the major additions to the social media platforms. The social media giant is now planning to enhance it with OpenAI-like Voice Mode. The Meta AI, as per Reuters, will be getting the voice of celebrities like Judi Dench, Kristen Bell, and John Cena, with less controversy.
According to the individual who spoke with Reuters, users will be able to choose a voice for Meta's ChatGPT-like digital assistant from a roster of five celebrities, which also includes Awkwafina and Keegan-Michael Key, in addition to other generic voice selections. The social media giant will make the announcement about the audio capabilities on Wednesday at its annual Connect conference.
At Connect this year, Meta is also anticipated to present a prototype of its augmented reality glasses and talk about its plans for future hardware products, such as the Ray-Ban Meta smart glasses, which became the company's first offering last year and included an audio version of its AI chatbot.
The person told Reuters that the celebrity voices will begin rolling out throughout Meta's family of apps, which includes Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp, this week in the United States and other English-speaking areas.
Bloomberg was the first to reveal earlier this summer that Meta was talking to celebrities about lending their voices to artificial intelligence initiatives.
Last week, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg shared a promotional video of Cena on Instagram. The film included the two guys performing stunts while sporting the Ray-Ban Meta eyewear, along with a few other people.
In an effort to take the lead in the rapidly developing field of artificial intelligence, Meta has been pushing generative AI products to its billions of users while competing with Alphabet's Google and Microsoft-backed ChatGPT developer OpenAI.
In order to do that, the business has been enhancing the features of its chatbot and working to make it a more noticeable aspect of the app user experience.
In May, OpenAI debuted a similar audio function for its chatbot. However, the firm soon encountered difficulties when Scarlett Johansson, an actor, claimed that the chatbot sounded "eerily similar" to her, despite the fact that she had declined to provide her voice for the project.
At the moment, Meta's assistant can respond to user commands by creating graphics and having text conversations. Last year, the business tried introducing text-based "character" versions of the chatbot, modelled after famous people like Paris Hilton and Snoop Dogg. However, those versions didn't seem to catch on with consumers. Since then, Meta has refocused on developing an AI Studio tool that lets content producers on its networks build chatbot clones of themselves.