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 employees, the report mentioned.
Play AI lets anybody clone completely different sorts of voices that they will use for AI-powered use instances, akin to customer support, per its web site. The startup has raised $23.5 million in complete, and its traders embrace 500 Startups, Kindred Ventures, Race Capital, 500 International and Soma Capital, per Crunchbase.
Meta presently lets creators on its social platforms build their own chatbots, and has added video editing capabilities to its Meta AI chatbot. Buying a voice startup would let the corporate bake in audio options into its inventive suite.
Meta and Play AI didn’t instantly return requests for remark.