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Gle and Playai announced a cooperation today to bring DialogAn advanced text-to-speech model, to market through the GROQ's high-speed inference platform.
Partnership combines Playai's expertise with Voice AI with specialized GROQ processing infrastructure, creating what companies claim is one of the most natural sounds and responsive text-to-speech systems available.
“The GROQ provides a complete, low latency system for automatic speech recognition (ASR), Genai, and text-to-speech, all somewhere,” said Ian Andrews, chief ear officials at the GROQ, in an exclusive interview with Venturebeat. “By dialogue today is running GROQCLOUDThis means that customers do not have to use many providers for a case of use – the GROQ is a stopping solution. “
GROQ POWERS First Arabic Voice AI, Expansion of Middle East Tech Presence
Dialog is noteworthy to be available in both English and Arabic, with the Arabic version representing the first AI voice designed specifically for the Middle East region. Arabic integration as one of the initial offerings is strategically for both companies.
“Arabic is the fourth most spoken language in the world -by working with the Playai to offer an Arabic TTS model, the GARQ opens a major global market and enabling a broader access to rapid AI recognition,” Andrews told Venturebeat.
Companies claim their solution responds to major shortcomings to existing AI voice technologies, especially around natural speech patterns and response speed. According to the benchmark test conducted by the third-party evaluator PodonosDialogue is preferred by users at a rate of 10: 1 compared Elevenlabs V2.5 Turbo and more than 3: 1 against Eleven -A multilingual v2.0.
The innovative 'Adaptive Speech Contextualizer' changes to AI talk
What are the sets Dialog Besides its sophisticated approach to context. Instead of treating each vocational as an isolated event, the system maintains awareness throughout the flow of communication.
“We have built an architecture of the novel we call a 'Adaptive speech contextualizer'(ASC), which allows the model to use the full context and history of a conversation, “Mahmoud Felfel, co-founder and CEO of Playai, said in an interview with Venturebeat.” This means that each response is not just a standalone output; It is enriched with the appropriate prosody, tone, and emotion that reflects the flow of conversation. “
For businesses looking to implement AI talk, the latency – the delay between request and response – is an ongoing challenge. GROQ expert Language processing units (LPU) appears to provide a significant advantage in this area.
“Based on the initial internal test, the GROQ delivers up to 140 characters per second to Playai's Model dialog.
GROQ assures $ 1.5 billion investment in Saudi to produce AI infrastructure worldwide
Collaboration arrives at a time of significant expansion for the GROQ, which has recently been -Secure a $ 1.5 billion promise From Saudi Arabia to fund additional infrastructure. The company has established a data center in Dammam, which it describes as “the largest cluster of region's inference.”
“Collaboration with the GROQ is a no-brainer; they are the industry leader in the AI's advanced infrastructure,” Felfel said. “In TTs and agents, low latency is key. We have already optimized the dialogue for these real-time applications, but cooperation with the GARQ allows us to deliver the lowest latement voice model in the market.”
The AI's voice market has seen a rapid growth as businesses look to automate customer contacts while maintaining a natural, just as human experience. Applications are covered from customer service and automation sale to voice-overs and access features for vision disabilities.
Enterprise applications expand beyond traditional cases of customer service use
“Beyond the customer service, other cases of business use include scheduling sales and appointments, on-boarding and personal assistants, creating voice overs with existing content, translating audio and video content to Arabic, website increases and accessing static content for visual disability, and more,” Andrews said.
For Playai, founded by entrepreneurs from the Middle East and North Africa region, the integration of Arabic language capabilities is particularly significant.
“As Mena's founders, we know that the region is heavy investing in AI's capabilities and infrastructure as has been shown in investments such as the GOQ, but also the world's leading adoption,” Felfel said. “Arabic is a global business language and one that we grew up in speaking, so it is a natural choice as one of our major languages.”
Companies made dialogue technology available GROQCLOUD'S Tiered service model, which includes both free and paid options. This method gives developers to experiment with technology before making a greater implementation.
“The GROQCloud offers both free and paid plans. Anyone can create an account and create an API code for free,” Andrews explained. “Our paid developer tier is self-serving, which means anyone with a credit card can sign up themselves.”
As the voice becomes an important interface for AI systems, the position of this collaboration with both companies to achieve growing demand for more natural and responsive communication experiences. By addressing the technical challenges of latency and natural speech patterns, the GROQ and Playai can remove significant obstacles to the broader voice AI voice in business settings.
