Real-time voice chat with AI, no transcription

Show HN: Real-time voice chat with AI, no transcription

Real-time voice chat with AI, no transcription is active in the show hn launch space.

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Hi HN -- voice chat with AI is very popular these days, especially with YC startups (https://twitter.com/k7agar/status/1769078697661804795). The current approaches all do a cascaded approach, with audio -> transcription -> language model -> text synthesis. This approach is easy to get started with, but requires lots of complexity and has a few glaring limitations. Most notably, transcription is slow, is lossy and any error propagates to the rest of the system, cannot capture emotional affect, is often not robust to code-switching/accents, and more.Instead, what if we fed audio directly to the LLM - LLM's are really smart, can they figure it out? This approach is faster (we skip transcription

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