Truecaller’s AI Assistant just got smarter! Now you can screen your calls easily with your own AI voice picking up and checking on the calls before you. This is an amazing example of how voice agents can become part of the regular lives of normal people.
Highlights:
- Truecaller announces partnership with Microsoft’s Azure AI Speech for its AI Assistant.
- Users can create their own AI voice, along with using preset voices to answer the calls.
- This will create a sense of trust for the caller when they hear the voice of the person they called.
Truecaller’s AI Assistant Can Create Your AI Voice
As we know Truecaller is a well-known caller ID service that people use to identify spam calls. It just announced that users would soon be able to utilize its AI-powered Assistant to answer calls in their voices. All this is in partnership with Microsoft’s Azure AI speech.
Truecaller users who have access to their AI Assistant can now create their own AI voices to answer incoming calls. This AI voice can then talk to the caller, find out the reason why they are calling, and show it to you on the screen, for you to decide whether to pick it up or not.
Since its September 2022 launch, Truecaller’s AI Assistant has integrated a plethora of AI technologies, including the ability to accept calls automatically, screen conversations, take messages, speak on your behalf, and record calls for later viewing.
It can answer incoming calls and inform users of the caller’s intentions and urgency for the call. Users are able to see why they are being called and can decide whether to answer the phone themselves or have the assistant do it for them.
Now, users of the Truecaller Assistant can digitally record their voice and utilize it inside the Assistant thanks to the integration of Microsoft Azure AI Speech’s Personal Voice feature. This means that instead of having your callers hear your voice instead of a preset voice.
“By integrating Microsoft Azure AI Speech’s personal voice capability into Truecaller, we’ve taken a significant step towards delivering a truly personalized and engaging communication experience.The personal voice feature allows our users to use their own voice, enabling the digital assistant to sound just like them when handling incoming calls. This groundbreaking capability not only adds a touch of familiarity and comfort for the users but also showcases the power of AI in transforming the way we interact with our digital assistants.”
Raphael Mimoun, Product Director & General Manager, Truecaller
This will create a sense of comfort and trust for the calling party when they hear the voice of the person they called. This technique can be helpful in maintaining healthy relationships between the calling party and the receiver, regardless of the purpose whether it be family, meeting, or business.
However, if you look at it the other way, AI is here at it again in promoting deepfakes. Whenever a new AI tool or feature arrives on the Gen AI market, it’s bound to raise some eyebrows. Already we have tools that can create immaculate deep fakes of videos and pictures, and the only thing missing was a voice cloner for calls.
Besides Truecaller, there are other partnerships also announced by Microsoft for their Azure AI Speech.
Speech translation with Skype
Real-time speech translation scenarios with the speaker’s own voice speaking in a different language can be made possible with the usage of personal voice.
The most recent Azure AI Speech personal voice model is now available for use in Skype’s truvoice translating tool. When you communicate with someone who doesn’t speak the same language as you using Skype, automatic translation takes place in real-time while you speak in your own tongue.
Content Creation with Wondershare
Using personal voice, users can produce and utilize their own voices for a variety of video content creation purposes, such as narratives, audiobooks, podcasts, films, and more, resulting in more relatable and engaging content than ever before.
To increase efficiency, Wondershare, a business that specializes in digital creativity, is incorporating personal voice into its video editing tools.
In a similar news, SoundHound AI collaborated with Perplexity, an AI-powered search engine to integrate search abilities into their Chat AI used in voice assistants.
Conclusion
Microsoft’s Azure AI Speech will empower and take Truecaller to completely new heights. As users can now record their own voice, this will be beneficial to both the calling and the receiving parties. Let’s see how Truecaller levels up its Call Service game with the help of Microsoft’s Personal Voice feature, in the days to come.
