Voice AI that actually converts: New TTS model boosts sales 15% for major brands

Join the event trusted by enterprise leaders for nearly two decades. VB Transform brings together the people building real enterprise AI strategy. Learn more Generating voices that are not only humanlike and nuanced but diverse continues to be a struggle in conversational AI. At the end of the day, people want to hear voices that sound like them or are at least natural, not just the 20th-century American broadcast standard. Startup Rime is tackling this challenge with Arcana text-to-speech (TTS), a new spoken language model that can quickly generate “infinite” new voices of varying genders, ages, demographics and languages just based on a simple text description of intended characteristics. The model has helped boost customer sales — for the likes of Domino’s and Wingstop — by 15%. “It’s one thing to have a really high-quality, life-like, real person-sounding model,” Lily Clifford, Rime CEO and co-founder, told VentureBeat. “It’s another to have a model that can not just create on ... Read full article.