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Ultravox.ai
Company blog · ultravox.ai/blog · on HN as zkochai
Ultravox.ai is the company blog at ultravox.ai, writing about ai. Since 2024, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 6 times. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
The linked pages concern real-time, speech-native voice AI. The only comment is about a local voice assistant with streaming text-to-speech and does not discuss the writing.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 1 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Ultravox is a real-time voice AI infrastructure layer that powers fast, natural, and scalable voice agents.
What Hacker News says?
Coqui's XTTSv2 is good for this because it has a streaming mode. I have my own version of this where I got ~500ms end-to-end response latency, which is much faster than any other open source project I've seen. https://github.com/jdarpinian/chirpy These are easy to make and fun to play with and it's awesome to have everything local. But it will take more to build something truly useable. A truly natural conversationa…
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on “Show HN: Local voice assistant using Ollama, transformers and Coqui TTS toolkit”Submitted Ultravox: An open-weight alternative to GPT-4o Realtime as a story · 8 points
HN discussionSubmitted Why speech-to-speech is the future for AI voice agents: Unpacking the AIEWF Eval as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted What we need to make voice AI agentic as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Ultravox Realtime is now available as a speech-to-speech service in Pipecat as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Beyond Benchmark Maxxing: Measuring Open Source Models as Real-World Agents as a story · 1 points
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