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Re:Ask HN: AI that allows you to make phone calls in a langu... by umtksa on Sunday January 14, 2024 @09:33AM (#38990751)
you can do that with whisper https://github.com/openai/whisper even there is fast whisper runs like a charm on my old 2012 imac on cpu https://github.com/FamousDirector/FastWhisper
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Re:Ask HN: AI that allows you to make phone calls in a langu... by amelius on Sunday January 14, 2024 @11:00AM (#38991580)
Extra fun to make a loop English -> Foreign language -> English -> ...
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Re:Ask HN: AI that allows you to make phone calls in a langu... by fenesiistvan on Sunday January 14, 2024 @11:24AM (#38991784)
Whisper is capable to perform real-time translation?
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Re:Ask HN: AI that allows you to make phone calls in a langu... by diego_moita on Sunday January 14, 2024 @11:43AM (#38991938)
Only from some other languages into English, not from English into other languages.

Also, it doesn't do speech synthesis (i.e. text to voice).

So, mostly no.

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