When we first set out to create voice technology for web3, we were transparent with our roadmap and gave ourselves aggressive deadlines (when most projects don't give themselves deadlines at all!). As you know, the situation now compared to one year ago is very different and with the current state of the market we would like to adapt and make changes with input of the community, so we can improve and move forward accordingly.
While we have executed most of the initial items (TTS, Serums, Metaverse lands, collaborations with other communities and K-Pop influencers), some of remaining roadmap items don't feel relevant anymore. We'd like to remove Voice Breeding and Real-time conversion for Metaverse worlds for the following reasons: one, introducing Voice Breeding right now would dilute the value of Genesis when we should be focusing on bringing the value up; and two, after a series of discussions with Metaverse companies, it became clear they do not have immediate plans to introduce voice chat.
Instead, we want to focus our resources and energy on things that will add value to the project and to the community. We are proposing an art update of the PFPs to make the collection more visually "collectible". We want to improve the trait combinations, add in more details and offer re-rolls for PFPs without changing the rarity of your PFP. We will also upgrade all of the Genesis voices to increase their quality.
What does this mean exactly?
We will be holding a community vote on dropping the Voice Breeding and Real-time voice conversion for Metaverse worlds, and instead upgrading the art with improved trait combinations, more details, re-rolls for PFPs, and an upgrade to the voices.