Character.AI Introduces Characteristic That Lets You ‘Name’ AI Chatbots

Character.AI on Thursday launched a brand new characteristic that can let customers “name” a chatbot. These AI chatbots, often known as Characters, might be programmed to behave as an actual individual or a fictional entity. With this characteristic, customers could make cellphone 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 equivalent to English, Spanish, Japanese, Chinese language, and extra. Notably, Arc Search launched the same characteristic final month.

Character.AI Releases Character Calls Characteristic

In a weblog publish, the AI agency introduced that the Character Calls characteristic will likely be obtainable to all customers free of charge. Nevertheless, the characteristic is at present solely obtainable on the app, and customers won’t 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 might reply again verbally. This was carried out utilizing the AI mannequin’s text-to-speech (TTS) capabilities.

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

Putting calls on Character.AI

With the brand new interface, customers will see a name display interface when beginning a voice dialog with a chatbot. The display comes with a mute button and an finish name possibility. The corporate says the Character Calls characteristic will supply a decrease latency to generate sooner responses. Customers can even be capable to select from completely different voices, pitches, accents, and personalities.

Character.AI stated that the chatbots will help a number of languages equivalent to English, Spanish, Portuguese, Russian, Korean, Japanese, and Chinese language. There can even be an choice to seamlessly change 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 be capable to see a full transcript of the decision which is saved throughout the chat interface to function a simple reference level for the following dialog. Character.AI additionally acknowledged that the characteristic can even be launched on the internet sooner or later.