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    Show HN: Sparrow-2 – Solving the cocktail party problem

    Hey there, I’m Brian. I've been shipping conversational models over here at Tavus for the past two years. I want to tell you about our new audio-understanding model: Sparrow-2! It’…

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    Yeah, I can relate to that. Maybe it's also because you are too shy to ask someone to dance. I think I learned that lesson: just ask, and be unafraid to fail. Things tend to work t…

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    Comment #46641864

    Ah good question: Yes, ASR stands for Automatic Speech Recognition.

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    Comment #46638309

    It's unfortunate though, because Anthropic LLMs and ecosystem is the best IMHO. Tavus (we) and Anthropic should form a partnership.

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    Comment #46638290

    You can reach out to our sales team. You can chat with our AI SDR here, and they will review it and reach out. https://www.tavus.io/demo

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    Comment #46637543

    The one thing that really surprised me, the thing I learned that's affected my conversational abilities the most: turn taking in conversation is a negotiation: there are no set rul…

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    Comment #46637506

    I use Claude Code for everything, and I love Anthropic's models. I don't know why, but it wasn't until reading this that I realized: I can use Sparrow-1 with Anthropic's models wit…

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    Show HN: Sparrow-1 – Audio-native model for human-level turn-taking without ASR

    For the past year I've been working to rethink how AI manages timing in conversation at Tavus. I've spent a lot of time listening to conversations. Today we're announcing the relea…