Voice is the universal interface

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Language models give us the ability to create natural language, conversational, interfaces for

computers. We are seeing a rapid shift among early adopters to using general language instead of

traditional user interfaces for tasks like writing code and editing spreadsheets. Join the

cofounders of Pipecat, Gradium, and Daily as we discuss the future of realtime voice and AI

interfaces. Voice is the most efficient input mode for natural-language systems, and often the most

efficient output mode, as well. But good voice interfaces require a very high degree of

conversational facility, intelligence, task-specific reliability, and robustness to real-world

realities like multiple speakers and background noise. There's a long history of voice interfaces in

science fiction: Star Trek, Iron Man, Her. We'll use these depictions of computing possibilities as

a jumping off point for talking about the ideal voice interface. How close are we to being able to

build these interfaces with today's models, hardware, orchestration tooling, and UI libraries? What

are the most promising research directions? What did the movies get wrong, now that we actually have

experience building natural language, open-ended, voice systems?

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Voice AI: when is the "Her" moment? — Neil Zeghidour, CEO, Gradium AI (speaker-match related prior/adjacent AI Engineer video; captions: English auto-captions).

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