voice AI
7 statements across 6 episodes · 5 bullish · 1 bearish · 5 people on the record · first statement Jan 2, 2019 by Steven Sinofsky · across every show →
Everything said about voice AI, oldest first
Jan 2, 2019 negative
Sinofsky: Voice AI hardware ecosystems have not reached steady state
“And the thing is, this is, particularly for voice, this is just another cross-platform kind of thing. Well, we'll get to whether voice is a platform itself, but, like, you know, the idea that you're just going to go do all of these presumes that we've reached …”
Mar 15, 2025 positive
Kumar: Voice AI models must decide every 100 milliseconds for natural interaction
“You need to make decisions at the hundred millisecond, let's say, Time segment so that if you're talking and the other person, you know, starts sort of making some noises that make it seem like they're trying to interrupt you or they want to say something, you…”
Mar 15, 2025
Kumar: Achieving human realism in voice AI is harder than text
“I think you, I think it's much easier. It would be much easier to make a system that produces text chats with you that feels like you're texting a human because there's such a compression of like what the entity on the other side is into just like text. Wherea…”
Mar 18, 2025 bullish
Apr 3, 2025 positive
Tan: Voice AI agents are now nearly indistinguishable from human operators
“Voice AI has been an incredible, I think, enabling innovation in the last few years where you can now actually talk to an AI agent on the other line. You may not even know that it's not a human because their conversational abilities and their intonation sounds…”
Dec 22, 2025 bullish