Gdańsk AI

AI

voice chatbot

SHOW HN2023

100points
34comments
#648of 3,109 in 2023
Top 21%of 2023 by points

How HN took it

CuriousMostly questions and neutral comments

3 positive, 8 neutral or asking, 0 mixed, 3 critical, out of 14 comments about the project. Thread score +0.03.

Design: 0 for, 2 againstIdea: 1 for, 0 against

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What HN said

What people liked

  • Useful area of AI not yet built well

    From 1 comment
    • I've thought that AI voice (anything) is probably the most useful area of AI that's not been built yet in a form that's generally known and available. So kudos to you for…
      julianeon on HN

Objections

  • Text bottleneck means no audio understanding

    From 1 comment
    • I've always wondered if there's a better way of making voice assistants. With this stack, the AI will not be able to answer "what is this sound?", or give you UK-based…
      a2128 on HN
  • Speech-to-text and text-to-speech latency is slow

    From 1 comment
    • Hi, thanks! STT/TTS latencies are a bit bottleneck here unfortunately, so it's not as fast as I'd want to I'm about to launch poss market on production! Feel free to drop a mail…
      yu3zhou4 on HN

Requests

  • Hosted demo to try

    From 1 comment
    • Looks cool! Do you have a hosted version anywhere we could play around with?
      quantum-crt on HN
  • Setup instructions for non-experts

    From 1 comment
    • How do I set this up? I don't really understand (not experienced with node.js or JavaScript in general).
      gorenb on HN

Questions

  • Why GPL-2 instead of GPL-3

    From 1 comment
  • How to handle speech-text API latency

    From 1 comment
    • Great job on Gdańsk AI! How do you handle the speech-text/API latency? Coincidentally, I'm working on an idea that is similar to your other project https://poss.market/market/…
      kjok on HN

Alternatives named

  • Llama 2 local models

    From 1 comment
    • I've honestly lost all interest in anything integrating with OpenAI at this point. Llama 2 is giving completions at ChatGPT levels with a single GPU. I've replaced all of my LLM…
      ramesh31 on HN
  • TorToiSe TTS

    From 1 comment
    • TorToiSe (https://github.com/neonbjb/tortoise-tts) produces the best quality speech of any freely available model. However, its long inference times makes it impractical for…
      nielsinho on HN

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