🗣️ AI Voice Tools: Talk is Cheap

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HIGHLIGHTS:

• Advantages to talking vs typing

• The leading AI voice tools driving efficiency

• How to save time & money with AI voice tools

We talk 3 times faster than we write. The average speaking speed for American English speakers is about 150 words per minute (WPM), while the average typing speed is 40 WPM.

I see a future where it will be cheaper, faster, and easier to talk than to type. It’s a future made possible by generative AI tools.

Talking vs Typing

It’s clear from the data that most people are faster talkers than they are typers. But there are other advantages to voice than text.

Look no further than the new, buzzy social network AirChat, co-founded by AngelList’s Naval Ravikant and Tinder’s Brian Norgard. The platform, which debuted earlier this month, is like X/Twitter if it was entirely made up of voice notes. Instead of typing each post out, the user simply speaks it. The post then includes the audio and an AI-generated transcription.

AirChat’s founders are confident that talking, as opposed to writing, has the ability to reshape how we connect with others via social media. And maybe they’re right.

Text leaves ambiguity or the potential to misunderstand others. But speaking allows you to hear differences in tone and delivery, often completely changing a message and adding a human quality to it.

Leading AI Voice Tools

AI models, in general, are some of the most cost-efficient tools to become more efficient in your business.

A few of my top AI voice-related tools are:

• ​ChatGPT’s voice capabilities – This includes voice conversations with GPT-3.5 and its Whisper open-source speech recognition system to transcribe spoken words into text.

• ​Meta’s open-source Llama 3 -This AI model is one of the fastest AI models right now, expediting major forms of writing and queries in under one second.

• ​Descript – Using machine learning and AI, this tool can create transcriptions of audio, act as an audio editor, and generate new audio clips based on sound bites of saved speakers talking.

• ​Fathom – An AI-powered meeting assistant that helps you stay focused during video calls by automatically recording, transcribing, and summarizing meetings. The best part? It’s completely free. Imagine the resources saved by not having a dedicated team ‘note-taker’.

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How to Save Time & Money With AI Voice Tools

Just assume that 50% of your customers adopted speaking to an AI versus a human at your company.

Imagine you could utilize the benefits of spoken conversation with the optimization of AI automation.

You could have AI speaking to customers through live chat, email, call centers — even filling forms with vital customer information.

Want to assess your team’s readiness to include voice and AI in your marketing plans? Here are some key questions to ask:

How would you start testing voice-driven efforts in your organization? 

How could you optimize this with AI?

What outside resources would you need to create voice-driven campaigns? 

What voice should your brand be known by?

How is audio affecting your market today? 

Are any competitors using such tools or approaches?

Forward this to your team, boss, or text-lover to better understand the value of voice-based marketing and identify how you can use AI to expedite these processes.