OpenAI Realtime API
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4 statements across 2 episodes · 1 bullish · 1 bearish · 2 people on the record · first statement Oct 4, 2024 by Ilan Biggio · said 19 times in 2 episodes since 2024 · across every show →
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Oct 4, 2024 positive
Biggio: Forcing function calls over voice yields reliable UI control
“Speech to text is really interesting because you can prevent, you can prevent responses like audio responses and force function calls. And so you can do stuff like UI control that is like super, super reliable... If you like cut out the audio outputs and make …”
Jul 11, 2025 negative
Hsu: Standard semantic VAD fails completely for language learners
“You can use like the semantic VAD on real time API for regular English conversation. And that will basically classify at every token, how likely it is that you're done speaking as a sort of normal conversational English speaker. Like in this conversation, that…”
Jul 11, 2025 neutral
Jul 11, 2025 neutral
Hsu: Realtime API pricing fits customer support displacement, not consumer apps
“The pricing model of the real-time API makes more sense for something like a customer support agent, where you're very directly replacing somebody that you would pay hourly otherwise, and that's how you're seeing the pricing model for a lot of these initial ag…”