Posted by dsr12 18 hours ago
There's no male or neutral voice.
All examples are of white male software engineers talking to what I assume will be ultimately marketed as a 'girlfriend' bot (or used for love scams).
The single paragraph hand waving at the importance of 'safe AI empathy' doesn't dissuade me at all.
Sell your idea as what it is, yet another 'perfect' woman shaped object a hypothetical man can own and use how he likes.
It's up there. I think most humans would be convinced they're talking to a human. I assumed you've used other speech models. They are okay, but not as natural and imperfect as Dessa is.
Makes me realize how bad being silent really is.
Is having a duplex model constantly cutting in with uninteresting quips something people are looking for?