Character.AI Introduces Character Calls Function That Lets Customers ‘Name’ AI Chatbots

Character.AI on Thursday launched a brand new characteristic that may let customers “name” a chatbot. These AI chatbots, often known as Characters, could be programmed to behave as an actual individual or a fictional entity. With this characteristic, customers could make telephone calls over the app and have conversations that simulate an actual telephonic dialog. The synthetic intelligence (AI) platform says that the characteristic will help a number of languages resembling English, Spanish, Japanese, Chinese language, and extra. Notably, Arc Search launched an analogous characteristic final month.

Character.AI Releases Character Calls Function

In a weblog put up, the AI agency introduced that the Character Calls characteristic will probably be obtainable to all customers without spending a dime. Nevertheless, the characteristic is at the moment solely obtainable on the app, and customers is not going to discover it on the web site at current. In March, the corporate launched a Character Voice characteristic, which was a one-way communication with the characters. With this, customers would textual content the AI, and it will reply again verbally. This was completed utilizing the AI mannequin’s text-to-speech (TTS) capabilities.

Now, with Character Calls, customers can provoke a two-way verbal communication. This may enable customers to have a hands-free expertise of chatting with an AI character.

Inserting calls on Character.AI

With the brand new interface, customers will see a name display screen interface when beginning a voice dialog with a chatbot. The display screen comes with a mute button and an finish name choice. The corporate says the Character Calls characteristic will provide a decrease latency to generate quicker responses. Customers may also have the ability to select from totally different voices, pitches, accents, and personalities.

Character.AI mentioned that the chatbots will help a number of languages resembling English, Spanish, Portuguese, Russian, Korean, Japanese, and Chinese language. There may also be an choice to seamlessly swap between voice and textual content calls. The chatbot will preserve the context of the dialog even after switching.

After the decision is ended, customers will have the ability to see a full transcript of the decision which is saved throughout the chat interface to function a simple reference level for the subsequent dialog. Character.AI additionally acknowledged that the characteristic may also be launched on the net sooner or later.