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7 points·by monroewalker·4 個月前·0 comments

Crossing the uncanny valley of conversational voice

sesame.com
402 points·by monroewalker·去年·218 comments

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monroewalker
·5 天前·discuss
What makes it nicer to use than Slack?
monroewalker
·上個月·discuss
Heh after reading that title card I thought this was going to be a mosquito based software bug analogy. I expected a description of how to write software that resulted in more "good bugs" that might facilitate finding other bugs somehow. Now I'm a little disappointed
monroewalker
·去年·discuss
lol yeah I tried to get it to whisper too. And talk faster or slower or do accents. It seemed to be able to kind of do each of those things but only very slightly. Enough to see that there was some successful interpretation of the request but lack of flexibility to fully execute on it. OpenAI's model still has this beat on that front imo (talking quietly / slower / faster)
monroewalker
·去年·discuss
Yeah after a few interactions, the repetition of the mannerisms that initially added to the sense of life-likeness started to break the illusion a bit. The "you got me" response shows up a bit too often. The creativity remains impressive though
monroewalker
·去年·discuss
This was already posted here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43221377 but I’m really surprised at the lack of attention this model is getting. The responsiveness and apparent personality are pretty mind blowing. It’s similar to what OpenAI had initially demoed for advanced voice mode, at least for the voice conversation portion.

The demo interactions are recorded, which is mentioned in their disclaimer under the demo UI. What isn't mentioned though is that they include past conversations in the context for the model on future interactions. It was pretty surprising to be greeted with something like "welcome back" and the model being able to reference what was said in previous interactions. The full disclaimer on the page for the demo is:

" 1. Microphone permission is required. 2. Calls are recorded for quality review but not used for ML training and are deleted within 30 days. 3. By using this demo, you are agreeing to our "

edit: Actually this has been posted quite a few times already and had good visibility a couple days ago: - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43200400 Others: https://hn.algolia.com/?q=sesame.com
monroewalker
·4 年前·discuss
+1 for monitor arm. Regret not getting one sooner!