Engaging chatbots
Tech Life
BBC
4.3 • 227 Ratings
🗓️ 17 February 2026
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Summary
We chat to NVIDIA about AI chat and how to make it sound more human. Explore making and breaking an emotional connection with AI. And new tech is helping stroke survivors.
Presenter: Chris Vallance Producer: Tom Quinn
(Photo: A digital screen shows an icon of a chatbot with text inviting users to ask it anything and a finger pressing on the screen. Credit: Getty Images)
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| 0:35.5 | Listen first on BBC Sounds. |
| 0:38.1 | Hello and welcome to TechLife, the program about technology and how it's changing all our lives. |
| 0:44.1 | I'm Chris Valence. Envidia has become one of the most valuable companies in the world, selling chips that power the AI boom. |
| 0:52.8 | It also does a lot of research. And recently it's explored |
| 0:56.0 | how to make AI sound more human, a bit, you know, kinder, natural and a little less robotic. |
| 1:03.3 | We hear the results. Also, as more of us chat with chatbots, so we're starting to develop |
| 1:09.8 | emotional connections, meaning that for some, |
| 1:13.1 | an upgrade is also a breakup. And a new device, helping stroke survivors recover. |
| 1:20.3 | I have my freedom back. I feel like a new woman, you know. |
| 1:48.4 | Music Like a new woman, you know? Let's begin by talking about PersonaPlex. |
| 1:52.7 | Why? Well, because soon tech like it may be talking to you. |
| 1:59.5 | Personaplex is an AI chatbot developed by Nvidia as a research project, not a commercial product. The aim is to build a conversational AI |
| 2:02.2 | that could be prompted to speak in pretty much any context and any voice, naturally with few |
| 2:08.6 | pauses, dealing with interruptions and overlapping speech and using non-verbal cues, um, zos and, um, |
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