I would feel deceived if I were a customer of any company or office that uses this. If I take the trouble to call by phone, it's because I want to speak with a person. If I wanted to talk to a machine, I would send an email, talk to a chatbot, or even try to communicate with the company through social media. Calling by phone implies that I am investing time and effort, and I expect the same from the other side.
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Re: Launch HN: Retell AI (YC W24) – Conversational Speech API for Your LLM
#62Can you share what you're doing for TTS? Is it a proprietary fully pretrained in-house model, a fine tuned open source one, or a commercially licensed one?
Re: Launch HN: Retell AI (YC W24) – Conversational Speech API for Your LLM
#63Can you share what you're doing for TTS? Is it a proprietary fully pretrained in-house model, a fine tuned open source one, or a commercially licensed one?
Re: Launch HN: Retell AI (YC W24) – Conversational Speech API for Your LLM
#64Congratulations! How do you position yourselves against Google Duplex/Dialogflow and other competitors? https://cloud.google.com/dialogflow
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#65Re: Launch HN: Retell AI (YC W24) – Conversational Speech API for Your LLM
#66Can you share what you're doing for TTS? Is it a proprietary fully pretrained in-house model, a fine tuned open source one, or a commercially licensed one?
For TTS, we are currently integrating with different providers like Elevenlabs, Openai TTS, etc. We do have plans down the road to train our own TTS model.
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#67With respect to Alignment, it should be a fundamental requirement that an speech AI is ___REQUIRED___ to honestly inform a Human if its speaking to an AI. Can you please ensure, going forward, you have the universal "truth" as it were, to have your system always identify if its AI when "prompted" (irrespective of what app/dev has built - your API should ensure that if "safeword" is used it shall reveal its AI) -- "tr…
Re: Launch HN: Retell AI (YC W24) – Conversational Speech API for Your LLM
#68Congrats on launching. It feels very natural and the demo call was good.
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#69This is absolutely wild - I got chills when I thought about the fact I’m talking to a computer. Congratulations on flying straight over uncanny valley.
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#70I would feel deceived if I were a customer of any company or office that uses this. If I take the trouble to call by phone, it's because I want to speak with a person. If I wanted to talk to a machine, I would send an email, talk to a chatbot, or even try to communicate with the company through social media. Calling by phone implies that I am investing time and effort, and I expect the same from the other side.