Alongside bolstering its AI analysis expertise pool, Meta appears to be eager to flesh out its consumer-facing AI options. The corporate is in discussions to amass a voice cloning startup known as Play AI, Bloomberg reported, citing nameless sources.
The tech big goals to purchase the startup’s tech and produce on board a few of its workers, the report mentioned.
Play AI lets anybody clone completely different sorts of voices that they’ll use for AI-powered use circumstances, akin to customer support, per its web site. The startup has raised $23.5 million in whole, and its traders embody 500 Startups, Kindred Ventures, Race Capital, 500 World and Soma Capital, per Crunchbase.
Meta presently lets creators on its social platforms construct their very own chatbots, and has added video modifying capabilities to its Meta AI chatbot. Buying a voice startup would let the corporate bake in audio options into its artistic suite.
Meta and Play AI didn’t instantly return requests for remark.
