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Meta adds live voice and animated avatars to Muse

Technology · First reported 5 Nov, 18:36 · Updated 19:49

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Meta has added real-time voice conversations and animated avatars to its Muse app, currently available in the US. The reports describe the feature’s user options and technical design, while noting that performance comparisons come from Meta’s own testing.

  • Muse users can talk with the assistant, interrupt it, and choose voice-only or avatar views; the feature is currently available in the US.
  • Meta says the avatar system synchronizes speech and movement, and reports a 60-fold reduction in computation per chunk for its distilled model.
  • The technical report says access is through the Muse app, with no public API announced; it also notes that independent evaluations could test how Meta’s reported results generalize.
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Availability
US only, in the Muse app on phones, the web and Mac.
Avatar model
Muse Realtime Avatar, built by Meta Superintelligence Labs.
Reported video output
448 × 768 pixels at 25 frames per second.
Reported startup measure
Approximately 870 ms from the end of a user’s turn to the first voice-and-video response data; the report says this is not full-response duration.
Public API
No public API has been announced.

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