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actually the hardest part of a locally hosted voice assistant isn't the llm. it's making the tts tolerable to actually talk to every day. the core issue is prosody: kokoro and pipe…

Super awesome demo! The contact center market, including inbound customer support, is incredibly ripe for disruption, and I'm sure you guys will be on the forefront of that. Kinda …

Very very cool

Hard not to laugh, but you'd be surprised how often even other TTS companies are messing this kind of thing up. I think it has a lot to do with the data source they use for trainin…

April Fools!!!

Lily from Rime here -- we were super happy to collaborate with Vocode on this amazing project. We haven't launched yet but keep an eye out later this week!

Next token prediction is remarkably bad at mnemonic generation, even in English. Add another, lower-resourced language, and it will be really bad. For what it's worth 'cola' does r…

I'm unfamiliar with 'pornography recognition' as an established task in ML research (lol), but for what it's worth, it's not an innovate use of CNNs for audio classification. You c…