Launch HN: Vocode (YC W23) – Library for realtime voice conversation with LLMs

Re:Launch HN: Vocode (YC W23) – Library for realtime voice c... by alasdair_ on Wednesday March 29, 2023 @06:08PM (#35364520)

This makes all of Amazon’s many billions of investment in Alexa almost worthless. If there is some kind of “command” plugin to this, I’d love to hook it up to Home Assistant and completely replace the Alexa ecosystem.

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Re:Launch HN: Vocode (YC W23) – Library for realtime voice c... by waterproof on Wednesday March 29, 2023 @07:05PM (#35365162)

Maybe use this to create a voice interface connected to a LangChain agent?

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Re:Launch HN: Vocode (YC W23) – Library for realtime voice c... by KianHooshmand on Wednesday March 29, 2023 @08:11PM (#35365846)

Totally! We actually use LangChain for the OpenAI wrapper agents we give out of the box (you can plug in your own custom one as well)

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Re:Launch HN: Vocode (YC W23) – Library for realtime voice c... by ajaynraj on Wednesday March 29, 2023 @07:07PM (#35365183)

thanks!! obviously there's a lot of stuff we need to do to make this run at scale that Alexa has down pat.

A Home Assistant integration is a great idea! would love to talk with you on our Discord[0] about this / over email ( ajay at vocode.dev ), it's something we definitely want to build.

[0] https://discord.com/invite/NaU4mMgcnC

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Re:Launch HN: Vocode (YC W23) – Library for realtime voice c... by qaq on Thursday March 30, 2023 @03:11AM (#35369153)

This might be bigger market that what you planned originally

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Re:Launch HN: Vocode (YC W23) – Library for realtime voice c... by zeven7 on Wednesday March 29, 2023 @08:12PM (#35365855)

It almost feels like the tech is there for a DIY Alexa if you just put some microphones and speakers around your house and set up a computer to run it. I would love to see some sort of packaged open source solution for this.

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