voice AI

“You know, if you're above three and a half seconds or four seconds latency, it is, it's a frustrating experience. Doesn't matter how capable you are. If you're not fast enough in over voice, it's painful.”

“I think today, virtually everything is audio language models because since they are autoregressive, so they run in in a streaming fashion, they are naturally compatible with real-time inference, which is kind of the main topic around voice right now. And so ev…”

“And in voice in particular, since the required compute is much lower and is that the same for data, really a few individuals can make stuff that is completely You know, just changing applications at very large scales.”

“In my perception, all the new hardware companies have voice at the heart of the product. All the prototypes that we see, whether it's glasses or pendants or, you know, like the new stuff that Johnny Hive and Sam Altman are working on. Voice is at the heart of …”

“So being very selective about when to compute, to use compute, I think that's the only way to, for all of it to make sense economically.”

“With turn taking, we are back at the archaic era of handmade rules, which is ridiculous.”

“You need discipline when you talk to AI. You need to adapt to its flow. Otherwise it's, it gets lost and gets confused and interrupts and so on.”

“For the first time it's actually can be enjoyable to, and even more convenient to talk to an AI on the phones and talking to a human because you can call any time of the day or night and the interaction is is working pretty well and it sounds really nice and t…”

“And at the same time, these models are so large, they cannot run at scale because they will just make everyone lose money in the process.”