AI company D-ID has introduced a web app for users to chat face-to-face with photorealistic AI humans.
Dubbed chat.D-ID, the app combines OpenAI's ChatGPT with D-ID's text-to-video capabilities.
The web app can now allow users who can't write or read to communicate with ChatGPT through synthetic voice and face technology.
- Chat.D-ID, which is now in beta, lets users ask questions via either voice or text with an avatar named Alice.
- "Video is more effective than text, so the app increases the power of large language models by adding a face," D-ID CEO Gil Perry told TechCrunch.
- Eventually, D-ID plans to add more digital characters, as well as enable people to upload photos of individuals to be used as the face on the app.
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- D-ID's AI software is also used by online genealogy service MyHeritage for its "Deep Nostalgia" tool, which makes still photos appear as if they're moving. People use it to animate old photos of their ancestors.
- D-ID also recently launched Creative Reality Studio, a platform for creating videos of a person from text and a single image of that person. Users simply upload a photo and input text or an audio clip. They then choose a voice, language, and style, such as cheerful or excited.
