How OpenAI delivers low-latency voice AI at scale

Re:How OpenAI delivers low-latency voice AI at scale by Sean-Der on Monday May 04, 2026 @04:55PM (#48014855)

Check out [0]. You can do 'Voice AI' on small/cheap hardware. It's the most fun you can have in the space ATM :) It's been a while, but posted a demo here [1]

[0] https://github.com/pipecat-ai/pipecat-esp32

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6f0sUEUuruw

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Re:How OpenAI delivers low-latency voice AI at scale by AnthOlei on Monday May 04, 2026 @05:16PM (#48015112)

beautiful demo - is it running fully locally or talking to 3rd party API’s? That box was jaw dropping small

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Re:How OpenAI delivers low-latency voice AI at scale by jameshush on Monday May 04, 2026 @09:12PM (#48016907)

For the best experience, you'll still want it to communicate with 3rd party APIs to handle the speech to text, text to speech, and LLM.

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