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Insight
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…”
Andrew Hsu Jul 11, 2025 ▶ 51:31 Personalized AI Language Education — with Andrew Hsu, Speak
Opinion
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…”
Andrew Hsu Jul 11, 2025 ▶ 48:17 Personalized AI Language Education — with Andrew Hsu, Speak
Insight
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 …”
Ilan Biggio Oct 4, 2024 ▶ 16:56 Building AGI in Real Time (OpenAI Dev Day 2024)
Disclosure
Speak has no OpenAI Realtime API features in production due to cost
“We are, In the process of building a variety of experiences on top of the real-time API, I want to clarify that actually nothing is in production yet, mostly for price reasons, frankly.”
Andrew Hsu Jul 11, 2025 ▶ 48:05 Personalized AI Language Education — with Andrew Hsu, Speak
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