Adventures in tech
Since I’ve been exploring the extended universe of voice AI and voice agents, I’ve met a lot of people working with them in the real world and it’s not just the average customer support bot anymore. I’ve met teams building debt collection agents, emergency services routing, and even language-specific services for regions outside the US. In the spirit of Learning in Public , I wanted to write down…
I saw NVIDIA’s announcement on X about their new series of open Nemotron models and ended up reading a blog post from Daily.co about building voice agents with Nemotron and Pipecat. I’ve been using voice dictation daily since building Tambourine , so I decided to test Nemotron with it. It’s fast for real-time use, and the accuracy is solid, unfortunately you do need a CUDA GPU. Here’s how I set it…
Originally published on Medium . On April 17, 2018, the world was greeted by Former President Barack Obama saying outrageous things in a video titled “You Won’t Believe What Obama Says In This Video!”. About 30 seconds in, it is revealed that is a deepfake allowing the famous comedian Jordan Peele to use the face and voice of “Obama”. As technology advances further, higher forms of media…
Originally published on Medium . I was starting an hour long commute home when my phone came abuzz. A friend was organizing the annual Angel & Mortal game for our residential college community and was interested in leveraging some online platform for anonymous communication between players. The rules of Angel & Mortal are simple: Each player is assigned a Mortal to whom they act as an Angel. The…