Eunice is almost here(armincat.com)
69 points by armcat | 74 comments
A short blog post comparing the AI assistant Eunice from William Gibson's novel Agency to today's emerging autonomous, full-duplex conversational AI agents.
#voice-ai on Hacker News
12 stories tagged voice-ai, newest first.
Dessa: Conversation Model trained only on speech(block.xyz)
498 points by dsr12 | 188 comments
Block's AI research lab announces Dessa, a full-duplex speech-to-speech model trained only on human conversation audio, with demo recordings and a waitlist.
Rubber Duck: An AI interviewer for the knowledge in your head(rubberduck.talk)
7 points by RD44 | 2 comments
Sign-in page for Rubber Duck, an AI interviewer product that draws out and captures the knowledge in a user's head.
Gemini 3.8 Live and 3.8 Live Extended Thinking(blog.google)
479 points by leumon | 316 comments
Google blog post announcing Gemini 3.8 Live and 3.8 Live Extended Thinking, live voice dialogue models with improved intelligence and parallel reasoning.
OpenAI’s WebRTC problem(moq.dev)
482 points by atgctg | 141 comments
A moq.dev blog post responding to OpenAI's technical blog, arguing that WebRTC is the wrong protocol for voice AI and that others should not copy OpenAI's approach.
How OpenAI delivers low-latency voice AI at scale(openai.com)
480 points by Sean-Der | 141 comments
OpenAI engineering blog post explaining how the company delivers low-latency voice AI conversations at scale.
VibeVoice: Open-source frontier voice AI(github.com)
346 points by tosh | 169 comments
GitHub repository for Microsoft's VibeVoice, an open-source frontier voice AI project covering TTS and ASR models.
OpenAI Audio Models(openai.fm)
610 points by KuzeyAbi | 285 comments
OpenAI.fm is an interactive demo where developers can try OpenAI's new text-to-speech model with selectable voices, vibes, and scripts.
Daisy, an AI granny wasting scammers' time(news.virginmediao2.co.uk)
643 points by ortusdux | 234 comments
Virgin Media O2 press release announcing Daisy, an AI voice persona of an elderly woman designed to keep phone scammers talking and waste their time.
OpenAI didn’t copy Scarlett Johansson’s voice for ChatGPT, records show(washingtonpost.com)
484 points by richardatlarge | 890 comments
Washington Post article reporting that records show OpenAI did not copy Scarlett Johansson's voice for ChatGPT's Sky voice.
Statement from Scarlett Johansson on the OpenAI "Sky" voice(twitter.com)
1281 points by mjcl | 823 comments
A post on X by NPR reporter Bobby Allyn sharing Scarlett Johansson's statement about OpenAI's ChatGPT "Sky" voice resembling hers.
Launch HN: Vocode (YC W23) – Library for voice conversation with LLMs
322 points by KianHooshmand | 111 comments
Launch HN post for Vocode, a YC W23 open source Python library for building real-time voice conversation apps on top of LLMs.