ElevenLabs demonstrated a voice-powered robot at a New York pop-up that took coffee orders and prepared drinks with minimal human involvement, but the system had difficulty recognizing voices and experienced significant lag due to network issues.
The voice model misidentified the user's name, hearing "Rachyl" as the more typical spelling "Rachel," illustrating challenges in voice recognition accuracy during real-world customer interactions.
Customer service chatbots have not gained the trust of average users, who tend to request a human agent immediately upon hearing an AI voice, even if waiting longer for assistance, despite years of the technology being touted as a key use case for AI.
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