AI voice models
4 statements across 2 episodes · 3 bullish · 0 bearish · 3 people on the record · first statement Dec 5, 2023 by Ben Horowitz · across every show →
Everything said about AI voice models, oldest first
Dec 5, 2023 positive
Horowitz: AI voice clones of deceased musicians can become new creative instruments
“I think it'd be pretty neat for an artist to be so kind of profoundly important that they become immortalized and, you know, Amy Winehouse becomes, you know, the equivalent of a trumpet or like, you know, she becomes an instrument that many people can use into…”
Mar 18, 2025 bullish
Acharya: Voice plus reasoning models will rapidly eliminate unwanted hallucinations
“This is where I think the capability is just going to get better and better faster than we appreciate. You know, with the language models, they're prone to hallucination, and there are certain conversations like the therapy one that benefit from the hallucinat…”
Mar 18, 2025 bullish
Mar 18, 2025
Moore: Natural AI voice interaction requires artificial pauses and vocal tics
“To an AI model, they will know exactly what words that they want to say back to you, right? So there's no reason for them to put in any pauses, any gaps, any little vocal tics. But to a human listener, very few humans just speak perfectly with no interruptions…”