- Perplexity’s iOS app is updated with a renewed voting mode
- The upgrade adds six new voices and real -time search integration
- Confusion also included new personalization features and a new design for the iOS app
AI Conversational Search Engine Perplexity speaks up in her latest iOS update. AI Chatbot’s voice mode brings a new look and more natural sounding voices to the app along with some new interactive features. The upgrade sets Perplexity’s app to better challenge rivals with their own voice options like Chatgpt or Google Gemini.
Before this update, Perplexity’s voice function was somewhat limited. It could read answers aloud, but without much emotion and with a walkie-talkie kind of interface that slowed things down. Confusion has now added six different votes. While it is still a text-to-speech system, which means it does not have the emotional hue of Chatgpt’s advanced voice state, the improvement is seen. Finally, you can choose a voice that does not sound like a 2005 audiobook.
So how does Perplexity’s voting state stab up against the competition? From an unscientific comparison, I would say that Chatgpt’s advanced voice state wins in pure realism, with an expressive sound, conversation tone and surprisingly natural sense of laughter and direct interruptions. Google Gemini is a little less fluid, but still very natural in general. And while Google Gemini’s voice is very good, it’s a little less fluid than chatgpt. Perplexity’s offers are very clear and easy to understand, but its voices linger in the more neutral tone that sounds a little more artificial. However, it is not negative, just another approach. Instead of focusing on making AI Sound Human, it doubles on the tool and ensures that when you ask a question, you not only get an answer but also the sources to back up it.
Perplexity’s voting state is also embedded in AI’s other features. This means that the real -time search tool connects to voting. When you ask a question, you not only get a spoken answer, you also see live search results with links to the sources. It is an ability that is crucial as so much of the appeal of confusion is in how it melts AI with search functions.
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The way you start voice mode and the app’s appearance when using the feature has also been changed. The microphone icon you press to start talking has been replaced by a ball of changing dots that respond to your voice and touch, spread and reform at your touch. It’s an unnecessary but fun touch to the app. You can also now personalize the app with widgets as updates of stocks or sports. It adds another layer of customization that makes confusion feel a little more like your assistant rather than just a generic chatbot. These kinds of options are likely to be necessary for confusion to follow and maybe beat other AI chatbots.
This ambition is also evident in the other major upgrade to the app. Confusion has also added the new Claude 3.7 Sonnet model to its set -up. Anthropics new model is aimed at improving Perplexity’s ability to respond capable to complex or multi -stage questions. Claude 3.7 is still very new and reviews have not been unanimous, but it can exceed or at least match the models employed by Chatgpt and Google Gemini to resonate and conversation engagement.
Confusion of Voice Mode Revamp suggests that confusion is not looking to beat chatgpt and Gemini, where they are strongest, but to increase its own strengths with features that make the whole interaction feel (and sound) smoother, more immersive and more natural.
