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6-axis life form that can express emotion and dance
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AI voice agents that adapt tone, timing & emotion by context
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Hey HN, we're Ben and Caoimhe, cofounders of Anam. We build interactive avatars and just shipped our latest model, cara-4. This is the first avatar model which can naturally shift emotions and expressions during the conversation; a feature we’re calling “Director Notes”. The way it works is relatively simple: we have an LLM provide cues such as [laughter], [sad], [warm] interleaved with the speech, which we then condition our animation model with. To test it out, we commissioned a blind study from Mabyduck.com with 200 participants, 1,600 rated live interactions across six criteria. Cara-4…
Jul 2026 · anam.ai
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