Groq and PlayAI just made voice AI sound way more human — here’s how

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Groq partners with PlayAI to deliver Dialog, an emotionally intelligent text-to-speech model that runs 10x faster than real-time speech, including the Middle East's first Arabic voice AI model.Read More

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