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
Opinion
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 …”
Steven Sinofsky Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 8:38 a16z Podcast | Beyond CES: Connected Home Devices, Voice, and More
Mar 15, 2025 positive
Insight
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…”
Ankit Kumar Mar 15, 2025 ▶ 1:05:01 Building the Next Generation of Conversational AI
Mar 15, 2025
Insight
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…”
Ankit Kumar Mar 15, 2025 ▶ 56:40 Building the Next Generation of Conversational AI
Mar 18, 2025 bullish
Insight
Acharya: Businesses paying $100k for phone answering are prime AI targets
“Any business that pays a person a hundred, a 150 K a year to answer phone calls is a potential customer of voice AI and, you know, can lead to a really interesting vertical opportunity.”
Anish Acharya Mar 18, 2025 ▶ 12:19 Why AI Voice Feels More Human Than Ever
Apr 3, 2025 positive
Assertion Not checkable as stated
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…”
Kimberly Tan Apr 3, 2025 ▶ 5:32 Unbundling the BPO: How AI Is Disrupting Outsourced Work
Dec 22, 2025 bullish
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Moore: Voice AI outperforms humans in financial compliance adherence
“But it turns out this is an area where voice AI actually outperforms because humans are actually very good at violating compliance and regulations and voice AI can get it every time.”
Olivia Moore Dec 22, 2025 ▶ 10:11 How AI Agents Will Transform in 2026 (a16z Big Ideas)
Mar 10, 2026 bullish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Moore: Voice AI Pins Will Reach Mainstream Consumers in 6–9 Months
“Whether that's voice dictation, whether that's like a voice pin that answers questions or does tasks for you, I think that is going to spread to the mainstream consumer in the next six to nine months.”
Olivia Moore Mar 10, 2026 ▶ 36:08 Inside a16z’s Top 100 AI Apps Report with Olivia Moore
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