Hardware manufacturer Rabbit used a partnership with Celebrities to enable voice commands on its devices. Rabbit is set to ship its first set of r1 devices next month after garnering a lot of attention at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) earlier this year.
The Rabbit r1 ships with Eleven Labs technology that enables voice commands from the user and how the pocket AI device responds to the user. At launch, this feature is only available in English and has one audio option. Eleven Labs said the R1 was ready for voice interaction from the beginning, but that its low-latency model will make the interaction more human-like.
“We are working with Rabbit to bring the future of human-device interaction closer. Our collaboration is to make R1 a truly dynamic co-pilot,” said Eleven Labs CEO CEO Mati Staniszewski said in a prepared statement.
Rabbit announced in January that it would use Perplexity AI's solutions to answer users' questions about their devices.
Earlier this week, Rabbit announced that the first batch of $199 R1 will leave the factory by March 31st and reach users within the next few weeks. The company says that right out of the box, users will be able to interact with chatbots, get answers from Perplexity, use two-way translation, order rides and food, play music, and more. It is said that it will become.
The company's CEO Jesse Lyu said at a StrictlyVC event earlier this month that Rabbit is approaching 100,000 device orders.
Earlier this year, Eleven Labs raised $80 million in Series B from investors including Andreessen Horowitz, former GitHub CEO Nat Friedman, and entrepreneur Daniel Gross in a bid to achieve unicorn status. . The company has focused on providing voice cloning services for creating audiobooks and dubbing characters for movies, TV shows, advertisements, and video games. PocketFM, the Indian audio platform that recently raised $103 million from Lightspeed, announced that it is using Eleven Labs' services to help creators turn their writing into audio series.
But Eleven Labs has faced its fair share of criticism, with journalists documenting users trying to trick bank verification systems, 4chan users imitating celebrities, and how easy it is to set up voice clones that produce questionable content. I've been exposed. The startup is rolling out tools to detect voices created on its platform, and is also working on tools to detect and distribute synthesized voices to third parties.