Meta rolls out real-time voice calls with expressive Muse AI avatars to all US users
rohanpaul_ai · x · 2026-11-06
Meta announced voice and expressive avatars in the Muse app, opening live video calls with its AI agent to every US user across mobile, web, and Mac, following a Connect 2026 preview.
Key details:
- Callers see an animated avatar restyleable as a person, animal, or other character, reacting with expressions and gestures while listening and speaking.
- Muse Realtime Voice emits speech tokens carrying both words and delivery.
- Muse Realtime Avatar turns the same stream into lip-synced video; to run live, Meta trained a student model to reproduce the system in real time (thread truncated).
- Positioned use cases: brainstorming aloud, trip planning, rehearsing interviews and pitches hands-free.
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