How to use voice in Character.AI

The Character.AI chatbot service includes several features to optimize your AI communication experience. The main feature of Character.AI is a text-to-speech chatbot that allows you to type requests and read responses from various characters, including modern and historical figures, popular fictional characters, and helpful personalities. However, you can also implement a voice feature that allows you to listen to characters’ responses in a human-like voice. This can serve as an accessibility option or if you simply don’t want to read your responses.

Character.AI allows you to enable voice options for the third-party characters you interact with, and you can also upload custom voices for characters on your own account. Here’s everything you need to know about working with voices on Character.AI.

How to enable voice for a third-party character

As we said, with Character.AI’s voice feature enabled, you can hear a character’s voice when they respond to your comment or question in a conversation. Let’s say you’re chatting with a Super Mario character, which could resemble the famous plumber with voice enabled.

Step 1: To enable voice for a third-party character chat, open a chat and click the sound icon that looks like sound lines with a slash through them.

This will automatically activate the voice function and the icon will turn blue. In addition, a voice controlled Notifications appear and quickly disappear again.

Step 2: Alternatively, you can click on the Three-dot symbol right of the sound symbol. In the Dropdown menumove the mouse over the sound symbol – and it will be displayed Turn on sound.

Step 3: Click on the icon to activate the voice function there.

How to create a custom voice

To create your own voice sound on Character.AI, you’ll need to upload a clear audio clip between 10 and 15 seconds, so prepare it first.

The service uses this clip to train the algorithm, allowing characters to respond in detail based on this short sound. You can preview the voice again, but now it’s shortened to about three seconds based on your intro and edited to sound a bit cleaner and more bot-like.

Step 1: Once you have adjusted your settings, click Create voiceIf you want to make your vote public, you will receive an additional confirmation message. Click Confirm and the voice is ready to use. Click Completed and you will see the vote in the Votes section of your public profile.

From here, you can add the voice to any new characters you create. Once you’ve made the voice public, it will be available to the Character.AI community for others to use on their characters.

If you want to delete the voice, you can select it in your public profile and click EditAnd Delete.

Step 2: First click on Create on the Character.AI homepage and then click Agree.

Step 3: This will take you to the Create voice Page where you can drag and drop your clip or click “Upload” to select your audio from your computer files. Your raw audio will be automatically uploaded and you will have the option to preview and re-upload it if you encounter any issues.

If not, click Generate voice.

Step 4: The next page is a New voice Settings page where you can enter details about your vote, including an introduction, vote name and description. There is also the option to make your vote public.

How to add a voice to a new character

Creating a character in Character.AI requires adding a voice, so the steps are quite simple.

Step 1: Click Create on the Character.AI homepage and then click characterThis will take you to the new character page where you will fill in all the required details for a new Character.AI character, including name, tagline, description, greeting and definition.

Step 2: When you get to the voice control, click Add and a language options box will appear. You can browse or search for language options Discover Tab.

Step 3: Switch to Your voices tab to browse all the voices you have created. Hover over the desired voice and click Choose.

Step 4: Fill in the remaining settings information and then click Create character to complete the process.

Step 5: Once your new character is live, you can interact with them like a third-party chat in your account and enable voices to hear your custom voices in your own chat.

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