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Google’s Genie 4 Makes Up Its Characters’ Voices as You Play. Neither It Nor Block’s Dessa Says Whose Speech They Learned From (inside)

Graphic styled as a metro map with three lines: the usual voice assistant goes from your voice to text, a language model, text and a voice that reads it; Dessa by Block goes from your voice to Dessa, both ways at once, to its voice; Genie 4 by Google DeepMind goes from a typed prompt to a world with music and ambient sound to characters that talk back