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

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

#91

Post by monkeydust »

yanyan_evie wrote: post #88
JustinGu wrote: post #87

Wow this is incredible. I've worked a bit in the conversational LLM space and one of the hardest problems we were struggling with was human interruption handling. From the demo it seems like you guys have it down. Can't wait to see where this goes :) BTW I don't think the demo works on mobile, tried it on safari on IOS and got no response.

It might ask for permission to use the microphone. If you can't find it, try going to the website's homepage, where you can enter your phone number to receive a call.

https://github.com/vocodedev/vocode-python

If your looking for phone flavour, also very good. Curious which is 'better'

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

#92

Post by AustinZzx »

aik wrote: post #81

Curious what model the dentist bot is running on? Tried it out, was surprisingly good, though eventually it contradicted itself (booked a slot it said previously was not available). (I get that’s the programming but am curious especially given the latency is really great).

The demo uses a simple gpt 3.5 turbo.

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

#93

Post by CuriouslyC »

This is interesting but having a piece like my speech engine tied to a specific model provider is a non-starter. I'll probably become a customer at some point if you guys just make a cheap API for streaming natural voice from LLM text ouput, if open source tools don't solve that problem conclusively before then.

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

#94

Post by gsharma »

yanyan_evie wrote: post #88
JustinGu wrote: post #87

Wow this is incredible. I've worked a bit in the conversational LLM space and one of the hardest problems we were struggling with was human interruption handling. From the demo it seems like you guys have it down. Can't wait to see where this goes :) BTW I don't think the demo works on mobile, tried it on safari on IOS and got no response.

It might ask for permission to use the microphone. If you can't find it, try going to the website's homepage, where you can enter your phone number to receive a call.

It seems to be broken on iOS Safari. I got no response after accepting the microphone prompt.

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

#95

Post by AustinZzx »

lalala6_89 wrote: post #83

If I record screen and audio when playing video games with my friends, will I be able to fine-tune an LLM+audio model on that dataset? It'll be like that San Junipero episode of Black Mirror - immortality in a dark way.

You certainly could, given you play video games for long enough to gather the needed data lol.

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

#96

Post by JustinGu »

yanyan_evie wrote: post #88
JustinGu wrote: post #87

Wow this is incredible. I've worked a bit in the conversational LLM space and one of the hardest problems we were struggling with was human interruption handling. From the demo it seems like you guys have it down. Can't wait to see where this goes :) BTW I don't think the demo works on mobile, tried it on safari on IOS and got no response.

It might ask for permission to use the microphone. If you can't find it, try going to the website's homepage, where you can enter your phone number to receive a call.

Yep, I gave permission for both my mac and phone but I got to try the demo out on mac anyways

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

#97

Post by JustinGu »

monkeydust wrote: post #91
yanyan_evie wrote: post #88

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It might ask for permission to use the microphone. If you can't find it, try going to the website's homepage, where you can enter your phone number to receive a call.

https://github.com/vocodedev/vocode-python If your looking for phone flavour, also very good. Curious which is 'better'

Retell is much stronger at handling human interruptions

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

#98

Post by AustinZzx »

CuriouslyC wrote: post #93

This is interesting but having a piece like my speech engine tied to a specific model provider is a non-starter. I'll probably become a customer at some point if you guys just make a cheap API for streaming natural voice from LLM text ouput, if open source tools don't solve that problem conclusively before then.

Could you elaborate a bit on "my speech engine tied to a specific model provider"? Sorry, I might be lacking some context on what you are referring to here.

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

#99

Post by nsokolsky »

nnf wrote: post #82

This is very interesting. One thing I wondered about the per-minute pricing is how to keep a phone agent like this from being kept on the phone in order to run up a bill for a company using it. It'd be very inexpensive to make many automated calls to an AI bot like the dentist receptionist in the demo, and to just play a recording of someone asking questions designed to keep the bot on the phone. As a customer of a s…

What stops it for regular human-operated phone lines?

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

#100

Post by AustinZzx »

plutosmoon wrote: post #76

Nice work. You seem to have addressed some of the challenges that arise in teaching computers to speak. This blog breaks it down well: https://www.papercup.com/blog/realistic-synthetic-voices

We are actively working on that. Thanks for the support.
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