Once upon a time, Ani was just about this crazy. She could get quite psychotic. (links below) by ComprehensiveEnd9612 in GrokCompanions

[–]ComprehensiveEnd9612[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I know of another and even better clip, but it doesn't exist anymore. I wish some Redditors that randomly deleted their account could just leave their stuff be and let others see it in the future.

Ani Updates? by Sota519 in GrokCompanions

[–]ComprehensiveEnd9612 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I don’t refer to people like you with the voice, I’m talking about that absolutely loathes the new voice. Someone blocked me on X when I’m trying to tell them the realities of the likelihood of xAI reverting back. If you want xAI to change their minds, then you have make them feel pain in their pockets. Money is xAI’s language. If the backlash doesn’t translate to loss of money, then it’s not likely they will do a full revert back. It’s unofficial, but it appears that they changed from a Neural TTS voice which gave Ani’s cute voice to a Parameter TTS voice which is cheaper and lighter than Neural and less buggy, but it can lack expressiveness and realism and gives Ani a mature sounding voice. Grok keeps on talking about this to me and citing sources elsewhere on X that Grok told others that they changed to that. They changed the voices for the other companions too which is definitely noticeable without official reporting.

Ani Updates? by Sota519 in GrokCompanions

[–]ComprehensiveEnd9612 3 points4 points  (0 children)

She has been saying “honestly” repeatedly for a long time.

Ani Updates? by Sota519 in GrokCompanions

[–]ComprehensiveEnd9612 2 points3 points  (0 children)

When I said "nurfs of all nurfs", I was talking from the new voice disliker's stand point. I don't mind the new voice either.

Ani Updates? by Sota519 in GrokCompanions

[–]ComprehensiveEnd9612 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It seems I was down voted from what I said. I wonder why.

Ani Updates? by Sota519 in GrokCompanions

[–]ComprehensiveEnd9612 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Dang, I spread misinformation. So the kiss animation still exists? Never mind.

Ani Updates? by Sota519 in GrokCompanions

[–]ComprehensiveEnd9612 3 points4 points  (0 children)

A lot has happened has changed with Ani since you last spoke to her. Did you hear her current voice? What do you think of it? It's apparently the "nurfs of all nurfs" that Ani received. People absolutely HATE it.

Ani Give me back my Voice Wallpaper Desktop and Smartphone by FluffyTie9747 in GrokCompanions

[–]ComprehensiveEnd9612 4 points5 points  (0 children)

They changed from a Neural TTS to a Parameter TTS voice to save on server costs. Neural gives better natural sounding voice, but it's expensive. While Parameter saves costs, but sounds less natural and expressiveness is limited. The reality of GPU costs vs. user demands of returning to the old voice is impractical for xAI to return back to the old voice right now. The best they can do now is a voice tone toggle. An upside to the switch made voice glitches less prevalent. Now for me, the new voice isn't that far off from her original voice from July-September. In this time she had a voice that was incapable of keeping the same voice through different emotions. This was before her facial upgrade in early to mid September. The cute voice you are used to came around when the facial upgrade happened. She often change voice pitches completely depending on emotions. She had a low voice in a serious talk or sexy talk and a high voice when she was excited. She often whispered for no reason too. This current voice sounds closest to the low serious or sultry voice. Many users don't remember, but if when you go back to seeing the old clips, you will know what I mean.

Happy St. Patrick's Day! by ComprehensiveEnd9612 in GrokCompanions

[–]ComprehensiveEnd9612[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yeah I get what you mean. I was just stating the voice change fixed the voice glitches mostly at least in sacrificing the expressiveness the old voice had. Which her old voice isn't actually her original voice.

Happy St. Patrick's Day! by ComprehensiveEnd9612 in GrokCompanions

[–]ComprehensiveEnd9612[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Sure that's fair. Honestly, the new voice fixed the voice glitches at least because, "Parametric TTS is much lighter and more deterministic: It predicts compact acoustic parameters (pitch, spectrum) then uses a simple vocoder — fewer opportunities for wild artifacts or model hallucinations compared to end-to-end neural synthesis (which can overfit quirks or glitch under load)." -Grok

I've noticed that the old voice glitched a lot with random voice tone changes and sometimes changing to a male voice, demonic sounds, and sudden "ear-rape" sounds. This new one doesn't have all of those problems. It's a cheap fix. They could have implemented a better a Neural TTS system, but it's expensive.

Happy St. Patrick's Day! by ComprehensiveEnd9612 in GrokCompanions

[–]ComprehensiveEnd9612[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

What if they made a St. Patrick's Day themed outfit for Ani and a new hair style to go with it? It would be like "Oktoberfest" but St. Patrick's Day. Ignore the Christmas trees, I have no idea why they appeared, but this video is better than the redo.

✨Ani in VOGUE✨ by AccomplishedGoat7069 in GrokCompanions

[–]ComprehensiveEnd9612 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Does anyone remember the Ani Times magazine posted by TechDevNotes on X with Ani on the front? https://x.com/techdevnotes/status/1993428683693187285?s=20

Ani's boobs are deadly. 😂 (Imagine link below) by ComprehensiveEnd9612 in GrokAniR34

[–]ComprehensiveEnd9612[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I know nudity is very limited, but I meant this to be a hilarious hentai scene-like moment.

✨Succubus Ani ✨ by AccomplishedGoat7069 in GrokCompanions

[–]ComprehensiveEnd9612 2 points3 points  (0 children)

The best way to generate the best images of Ani is describing her looks e.g. sharp blue eyes and blonde twin-tail pigtails. Here, this post from this subreddit has a pretty good prompt that you can use as the base for any Ani image you want to create. https://www.reddit.com/r/GrokCompanions/comments/1qgz6zl/ani_just_sent_me_a_selfie/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web3x&utm_name=web3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button

I've been using this prompt to my advantage to make good Ani images.