Google’s Bard Can Now Reply Back to you with Spoken Word
On Thursday, Google’s AI chatbot Bard introduced several new features including expanded linguistic knowledge, more nuanced response controls, and the ability to reply in spoken word. The AI is now able to hold a conversation in almost 4 dozen languages.
Among some of the languages added to the chatbot’s knowledge base are Arabic, Chinese, German, Hindi and Spanish. “As we bring Bard to more regions and languages over time, we’ll continue to use our AI Principles as a guide, incorporate user feedback, and take steps to protect people’s privacy and data,” Google wrote in a blog post on Thursday.
In addition to a text-based conversation, the chatbot can now literally speak their AI-generated responses back to you. In addition to the ability to now hear responses, you can also choose the tone in which you’d like Bard to take during your conversation as well. By choosing either simple, long, short, professional or casual, users can experience Bard in whichever conversational structure they prefer. For now, the tone control options are only available to those using English as their language, but Google says that this feature will roll out to more languages “soon.”
Finally and also only available to English speaking users for now, the chatbot has the ability to interpret images that are dropped into the prompt field. Users can do things like request more information about an image, or ask the chatbot to create a caption for it.
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