{"id":192771,"date":"2025-09-30T17:30:11","date_gmt":"2025-09-30T17:30:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/192771\/"},"modified":"2025-09-30T17:30:11","modified_gmt":"2025-09-30T17:30:11","slug":"microsoft-is-giving-copilot-ai-faces-you-can-chat-with","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/192771\/","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft is giving Copilot AI faces you can chat with"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1ymtmqpi _17nnmdy1 _17nnmdy0 _1xwtict1\">Microsoft is trying to make Copilot more approachable by giving the AI assistant an animated face to talk with. The <a href=\"https:\/\/copilot.microsoft.com\/labs\/portrait\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">experimental \u201cPortraits\u201d feature<\/a> in Copilot Labs is currently available in the US, UK, and Canada, and provides 40 stylized human avatars that respond with natural expressions during real-time voice conversations.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1ymtmqpi _17nnmdy1 _17nnmdy0 _1xwtict1\">Announcing the new feature on X, <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/mustafasuleyman\/status\/1972740299840782684\" rel=\"nofollow\">Microsoft AI CEO Mustafa Suleyman<\/a> says Portraits was developed in response to some Copilot users saying \u201cthey\u2019d feel more comfortable talking to a face when using voice.\u201d The feature allows users to select a portrait and pair it with a voice, aiming to make verbal conversations with the chatbot feel more natural compared to text-based interactions.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1ymtmqpi _17nnmdy1 _17nnmdy0 _1xwtict1\">This is Microsoft\u2019s latest attempt to develop Copilot into a character that\u2019s more appealing to communicate with, having previously announced a similar feature called \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/news\/713715\/microsoft-copilot-appearance-feature-age-mustafa-suleyman-interview\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Copilot Appearances<\/a>\u201d in July. The notable difference between the two is that Portraits is based on human appearances instead of an animated cartoon blob.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1ymtmqpi _17nnmdy1 _17nnmdy0 _1xwtict1\">\u201dThis experiment leverages <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/project\/vasa-1\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">VASA-1<\/a>, an advanced AI technology developed by Microsoft Research to create real-time, visual AI conversations,\u201d Microsoft announced on the Copilot Discord server. \u201cThe innovation allows us to generate natural facial expressions, head movements, and lip-sync from just a single image \u2014 no complex 3D modeling required.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1ymtmqpi _17nnmdy1 _17nnmdy0 _1xwtict1\">\u201cEach portrait is intentionally stylized and not photorealistic, offering you visual variety while offering the same trusted Copilot intelligence and safety features you rely on,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/copilot.microsoft.com\/labs\/experiments\/portrait\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Microsoft said on the Copilot blog<\/a>. Availability is restricted to a \u201climited set of users\u201d aged 18 or older, according to Microsoft, with daily and session-based time limits in place alongside \u201cclear indicators that you are interacting with AI technology.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Microsoft is trying to make Copilot more approachable by giving the AI assistant an animated face to talk&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":192772,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[182,181,507,1281,3,172,74],"class_list":{"0":"post-192771","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-artificial-intelligence","8":"tag-ai","9":"tag-artificial-intelligence","10":"tag-artificialintelligence","11":"tag-microsoft","12":"tag-news","13":"tag-tech","14":"tag-technology"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192771","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=192771"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192771\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/192772"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=192771"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=192771"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=192771"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}