a16z-backed Character.AI stated right now that it’s now permitting customers to speak to AI characters over calls. The function at present helps a number of languages, together with English, Spanish, Portuguese, Russian, Korean, Japanese and Chinese language.

The startup examined the calling function forward of right now’s public launch. Throughout that point, it stated that greater than 3 million customers had remodeled 20 million calls. The corporate additionally famous that calls with AI characters will be helpful for training language expertise, giving mock interviews, or including them to the gameplay of role-playing video games.

Customers can provoke calls with a user-generated AI character immediately with a faucet of a button. Character.AI stated that this function is constructed to make the calling expertise easy with diminished latency.

You possibly can change between calling and texting seamlessly, in addition to cease the AI from speaking by a “Faucet to interrupt” possibility.

Earlier in March, Character.AI launched Character Voices so customers can hear the characters converse in one-on-one chats. The corporate stated with the function permitting customers to create their very own voices there are over 1 million voices within the app’s library.

The corporate’s new calling function comes at a time when customers on Reddit are complaining about their characters’ altering personalities. In response to those complaints, the startup instructed 404 Media that the corporate didn’t make any main adjustments, however some customers may have been a part of a check and seen behavioral variations in characters due to that.

Earlier this week, The Data reported that Google is working by itself personalized chatbot platform to tackle Meta and Character.AI.