Even the Robinson List does not prevent the continuous receipt of spam calls and even the tech giants cannot find a suitable solution. Truecaller and Microsoft have created incredible technology that clones user’s voice to answer calls and is thus responsible for replacing the user as if it were their “digital self”.
Two days ago, Microsoft announced a plethora of AI-related innovations to innovate in different areas and follow in the wake left a few days ago by Google at I/O 2024 and by OpenAI with its new GPT- 4o. Artificial intelligence is common in some innovations last year so that Windows 11 could imitate the user’s voice or the Eleven Labs project.
Truecaller is an application that identifies and blocks unwanted calls that users receive. The app has now been updated so users can use its AI assistant to clone their voice. It partnered with Microsoft’s Azure AI Speech, the technology responsible for recording the audio clip to generate the AI version of the user’s voice.
Raphael Mimoun, Product Manager at Truecaller, explains that this incredible capability not only adds a touch of familiarity and comfort to usersbut rather shows the power of artificial intelligence to transform the way users interact with their digital assistants.
Truecaller’s AI assistant experience is based on displaying the incoming call and its reason on the screen. The user reads it on the screen and can choose to respond either answer it yourself or ask the assistant to answer it.
With Azure AI Speech from Microsoft
An experience similar to what Samsung offers in its flagships with Galaxy AI and Google in its Pixels, but with the special touch that Truecaller clones the user’s voice so that the response is made by artificial intelligence be closer and more personalized.
Is like voicemail in which the response is recorded, but with the value offered by the natural response of AI. In this sense, Truecaller launched the assistant in 2022 and allowed the use of a wide variety of default voices, the only thing that is now personalized to another level.
Azure AI Speech, present these days at Microsoft’s Build 2024, is a spectacular technology for recording the user’s voice and reproducing it, although the tech giant has made it clear on its blog that is limited to a series of specific uses just like Truecaller with his assistant.
Another important aspect of this technology, according to The edgedoes Microsoft automatically adds a watermark to generated voices with Azure AI Speech, as well as a code of conduct that users must consent to be recorded and thus prohibit identity theft.