Meta’s new speech AI can laugh, scream, yawn, and chit-chat

**Meta unveils new research on speech AI: Machine-generated voices can now cry, laugh, yawn or make more natural small talk.**

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Meta’s speech AI can now mimic emotional sounds such as laughing, yawning, or crying – which it says is important in communication to better convey the intention and context of a statement.

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the new **GSML model dGSML**, which is optimized for dialogs, generates more natural-sounding audio dialogs using AI agents that can pause for thought or process overlaps …

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