The Screen Actors Guild-American Federation of Television and Radio Artists (SAG-AFTRA) has recently signed an agreement with the AI company Ethovox to protect actors' rights in artificial intelligence voice models. The primary goal of this agreement is to establish a responsible framework for the use of AI in the entertainment industry, ensuring that actors' rights are upheld in the new technological era. Under this agreement, actors will receive upfront payments when recording their voices and will share in subsequent revenues. This means that actors will be compensated fairly when their voices are used in AI models.

The Screen Actors Guild-American Federation of Television and Radio Artists (SAG-AFTRA) has recently signed a landmark agreement with the AI voice company Ethovox, setting clear regulations for the AI application of actor voice data. This agreement not only provides a reliable framework for the entertainment industry’s use of AI technology but also establishes new standards for protecting actors' rights. According to the agreement, actors will receive dual revenue guarantees: an upfront payment for voice recordings and ongoing revenue sharing from the application of AI voice models. More importantly, any use of voice data requires consent.

Today, OpenAI officially announced that it will roll out a brand new Advanced Voice Mode to all ChatGPT Plus and Team users within this week. According to the official introduction, the new feature not only adds custom instructions, memory, five new voice styles, and improved accents, but also introduces five different voices and over fifty language options, making interactions with ChatGPT smoother and more personalized. If you are a Plus or Team user, you will have access to Advanced Voice once it's available.

OpenAI announced on Tuesday that it will roll out the advanced voice mode (AVM) for ChatGPT to more paying customers. This upgrade aims to make conversations more natural and fluid, with the initial beneficiaries being ChatGPT Plus and Teams tier customers. Educational and enterprise clients will gain access starting next week. As part of this update, the interface design of AVM has also been optimized. The user interface now features a blue animated sphere to represent the functionality, replacing the previously displayed animated black dot. When AVM becomes available,

Recently, researchers from UCLA and Amazon conducted an in-depth analysis of the reasoning capabilities of large language models (LLMs). They systematically differentiated between inductive and deductive reasoning for the first time, exploring the degree of challenge each poses to AI systems. Inductive reasoning refers to deriving general principles from specific observations, while deductive reasoning involves applying general rules to specific cases. The aim of the study is to understand which reasoning capability presents more challenges for large language models.

At the opening ceremony of the 2024 Yunqi Conference, Giant Network made its debut and showcased its latest achievements in the "Game + AI" field. The company launched two self-developed large model applications—GiantGPT and BaiLing-TTS—while also demonstrating new technologies such as AI Digital Humans and the AI painting platform Giant Mimicry.

Soul App has made significant breakthroughs in the AI+Social field by upgrading its self-developed end-to-end full-duplex voice call model, achieving a natural and smooth voice communication experience with virtual characters that nearly matches the realism of talking to a real person. This model features ultra-low interaction latency, rapid automatic interruption, hyper-realistic voice expression, and emotional perception understanding capabilities, making it nearly impossible for users to distinguish whether their conversation partner is a real person or AI. This innovation not only significantly enhances the social experience for users on Soul but also showcases Soul's advancements in AI technology.

At the Volcano Engine AI Innovation Roadshow in Shanghai on August 21, 2024, Volcano Engine showcased a comprehensive upgrade of the Doubao Large Model. This includes the Doubao Text-to-Image Model, which has improved text and image matching capabilities for long texts, the Doubao Speech Recognition Model, which reduced error rates by up to 40% across multiple public test sets, and upgrades to the Doubao Speech Synthesis Model, enhancing streaming speech synthesis abilities for real-time responses and accurate punctuation. Volcano Engine also released a real-time interactive solution for Conversational AI, integrating the Doubao Large Model with real-time audio and video technology, providing end-to-end capabilities.

Alibaba recently launched the new open-source voice model Qwen2-Audio, which excels in speech recognition, translation, and audio analysis, achieving significant performance improvements. Qwen2-Audio offers a basic version and an instruction fine-tuning version, supporting multiple languages such as Chinese, Cantonese, French, English, and Japanese, facilitating sentiment analysis and translation applications. Compared to Qwen-Audio, Qwen2-Audio features comprehensive optimizations in architecture and performance, utilizing more natural language prompts during the pre-training phase.

Xiaomi's SU7 car has undergone a system upgrade to HyperOS 1.2.7, introducing key features like external wake-up defense and front vehicle recognition. This system update brings the highly anticipated 'external wake-up defense' functionality. When the vehicle is in P gear, the central control is locked, and all doors and windows are closed, this feature will automatically activate, effectively blocking voice wake-up attempts from outside, significantly enhancing the vehicle's security. This improvement directly addresses user feedback regarding the safety risks associated with external voice wake-ups.

GPT-4o, OpenAI's flagship model released in May, stands out for its audio comprehension, achieving an average response time of 320 milliseconds, close to human conversation speed. It integrates text, visual, and audio modalities through end-to-end training, showcasing its potential across various inputs and outputs. OpenAI plans to launch advanced speech mode features via ChatGPT Plus in June, delayed by a month for improvements in model detectio....

Fudan University has introduced SpeechGPT, a large language model designed to understand and generate both speech and text. By discretizing speech signals, it enables compatibility with text modalities, allowing for emotional perception and multi-style speech generation based on context and instructions. The training strategy includes modal adaptation pre-training, cross-modal instruction fine-tuning, and modal chain instruction fine-tuning to en....

OpenAI recently released an update on the progress of ChatGPT's advanced voice mode. This advanced feature, demonstrated in the spring update, was originally scheduled for alpha testing with a small group of ChatGPT Plus users at the end of June, but now requires an additional month to meet release standards. The development team is reportedly working to enhance the model's ability to detect and reject certain content. At the same time, they are improving the user experience and preparing the necessary infrastructure to ensure real-time responsiveness when scaling to millions of users.