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SHUSH THE PIRATE

By Zimbo · November 6, 2026

AI cartoon by Zimbo: Satirical cartoon: Merv the worried robot presses a finger to the lips of a giant roaring pirate avatar on a laptop video call labelled MUSE, on plain white paper.
Meta's Muse got a face — and it talks back in a pirate voice. Merv shushes it mid-sentence.Zimbo for AI News Page

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Meta rolled out real-time voice and expressive avatars in the Muse app on November 5, starting in the US on mobile, the web and Mac: tap the phone icon and start talking — Muse answers right away, and you can interrupt mid-sentence.

As Muse speaks, its avatar reacts with expressions and gestures that match the tone of the conversation; you can keep it voice-only, park the avatar beside the chat, or go fullscreen face-to-face — and pick from hundreds of voices, from a New Yorker's energy to a pirate's flair.

The launch puts a face on the assistant Meta has spent the year pushing into every corner of its apps — the voice is the product now, and the avatar is the part you have to look at while it talks.

The joke is the face-to-face beat: Merv video-chats a giant roaring pirate Muse and presses a finger to its lips — the assistant that talks back, shushed mid-sentence.

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