Launch HN: Retell AI (YC W24) – Conversational Speech API for Your LLM

Post by yanyan_evie » Wed, Feb 21, 2024, 3:46 PM UTC

vrc wrote: post #32

yanyan_evie wrote: post #18

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Yes, if you don't mind, you could leave your email on the waiting list at the footer of the website. We could keep you posted!

I second this request. Specifically, for a lot of applications, native-language "good enough" might not suffice (a dental office with English speaking employees and predominantly English speaking customers), but between a stilted conversation with a non-native speaker (broken English to English v. slightly incorrect native language to their native language), there might be more tolerance for some of the hiccups that…

Post by [deleted] » Wed, Feb 21, 2024, 4:07 PM UTC

jamesmcintyre wrote: post #41

Until this demo the most impressive conversational experiences I've seen were Pi and Livekit's Kitt demo ( https://livekit.io/kitt ). I do not think kitt was quite as fast in response time (as retell) but incredibly impressive for being fully opensource and open to any choice of api's (imagine kitt with groq api + deepgram's aura for super low latency). Retell focusing on all of the other weird/unpredictable aspects…

Post by yanyan_evie » Wed, Feb 21, 2024, 4:17 PM UTC

nextworddev wrote: post #39

How does this compare to vocode, another YC company?

Post by yanyan_evie » Wed, Feb 21, 2024, 4:23 PM UTC

djyaz1200 wrote: post #45

I tried the demo, and it got confused and disconnected, but it's a cool proof of concept. Suggest bumping up the happiness emotion on the agent, and a Calendly integration would immediately unlock a lot of use cases. Good luck!

Post by [deleted] » Wed, Feb 21, 2024, 4:36 PM UTC

bricee98 wrote: post #49

The demo was incredible, and this seems perfect for my current project. I am going to try to integrate this as soon as I can to see if it works for me. How responsive can I expect the support to be?