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It actually stands for seconds per expert.... ;-)
How is this not mentioned in the article anywhere? I've seen similar articles and keep thinking: is this about the 24 delay or something else. It just leads to confusing messaging.
I've just played it to the end with my own OAI key. Only $4 to solve which I thought was value for money.

A few issues:

Voice isolation seemed to be a problem as I airplaying my laptop to my TV to make it group experience. It did start to hear it's own voice, could be counteracted with lowering the volume.

Sometimes the voice reply would just stop but the text was there.

There was some bug where some characters if you went back to them would just answer the last question again. Also just strange stuff like no one knew what they had for dinner but the doctor could tell me how to treat a heart attack. It seemed like the knowledge base they are drawing from didn't have that. Was interesting to see the limits of what they could say.

Design-wise would be good to have a mute toggle as a keyboard shortcut, as we would then try to discuss what people said in the room and it would pick us up.

Also didn't realise we had to accuse the person they were the murderer, as we didn't know what button to press. That was a confusing design as everything had been action based by the UI at the point but now you are asking the user to perform an action with their voice. It also meant we had to accuse them and then immediately start saying why as we know it might cut us off if there's too long a pause. Maybe that could be a button to say you are ready to accuse then you say who and they would ask why, then you present the evidence step by step.

Would be good to have your own stats if you're logged in. i.e time to complete, etc but I guess that's just on a long list of features to implement.

Overall good experience:

I would like to see more involved mysteries. Liked the atmosphere, the characters. Still not sure about the AI portraits but I think that's because it's obvious it is AI. Just using voice to voice made it really nice to use. TBH didn't even need to look at the screen most of the time.

Realtime voice isn't there yet, as there is still handling interruptions and having to ensure you complete your sentence without stopping. Maybe that could be worked around in the app here but probably should be solved at model level. Basically what Thinking Machines are doing.

Also Sophia was really adamant about staying in the kitchen. I got so annoyed I told her to call it the bouncy castle instead.

Re:Smart Earbuds with built-in camera and AI on Friday May 22, 2026 @07:05PM (#48242702)
Also is it implying it can do all this with a local model on the phone?
Re:Smart Earbuds with built-in camera and AI on Friday May 22, 2026 @07:04PM (#48242692)
Started this company out of passion for gadgets and inspiration from Pranav Mistry's work on Sixth Sense.

I was born with high power and had to take eye surgery to get rid of glasses and see the world with wide open eyes. We believe in a future where humans touch grass again and not wear screens on their eyeballs.

Wut?

Re:GPT-5.4 on Friday March 06, 2026 @12:01PM (#47277697)
Isn't that what LLMs are?
Re:Source: Google Pixel 8 will get more Android OS updates on Tuesday August 29, 2023 @03:13AM (#37304390)
I have a phone going on 6 years now. Replaced the battery a few years ago and slapped on a custom ROM once mine was invariably not supported. I don't have a huge case on it or keep it plugged most of the time.

It's my daily driver, so I use it all the time and it basically runs everything I need.

Re:Wikipedia Speedruns on Thursday September 15, 2022 @06:28PM (#32859250)
Have you tried... Marathon mode? Conserve your clicks but take your time
Re:What do you find most annoying in your house? on Tuesday December 04, 2012 @09:01AM (#4870905)
Lack of low level floor lighting which turns automatically when you walk on the floor at night. That would be awesome.
Re:What do you think of my new blog theme? on Saturday March 24, 2012 @05:51AM (#3748949)
I like it overall. I thought that the icons on the left hand side were clickable and it would filter by that type but no. Personally I like categories and tags, so more of that please.