Launch HN: Leaping (YC W25) – Self-Improving Voice AI

Very impressive! How many jobs do you estimate this could displace?

What framework did you use for flow building?

Weird, because it seems like the demo video is pretend data anyway ("Mr. Smith", etc). I agree, I would like to see a more fully-baked demo where you connect it to a testing CRM and a toy order api and get it to answer several customer queries using live information.

I want this as an option to handle all my personal calls

I built a skeleton of an iOS app that managed my calls such that I could choose to answer, decline or send to my chat bot

So it gets real data from all my regular calls and in my state (1 party consent) I don’t need anyone’s permission to record every call. So that data kicks off a fine tuning running that can run overnight or locally to improve my personal model

My plan was to use whisper and a local model with my voice clone and it would talk with everyone I didn’t want to eventually to the point where I don’t ever talk with any person I don’t want to

I would pay you for a local way to do that, however I’d NEVER give you that data - but I’m sure plenty of people would

the demo is pretty impressive ngl. knowing it's a bot though makes you want to phrase your questions a certain way, so i tried to just pretend like i was talking to an actual support person.

i always feel with these bots its like way too "polished" in the responses or how it speak. maybe that's a good thing and we are just so used to hearing someone speaking more casually be less well spoken lol. it makes it feels inauthentic, but perhaps that will change over time.