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Re:Ask HN: Cheaper conversational voice API (~10x cheaper than ElevenL... on Monday December 29, 2025 @02:26PM (#46424391)

I haven't built a demo but you can test out my setup on my app: iOS: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/echo-tavern/id6754861981 desktop: https://echotavern.ai

Ask HN: Cheaper conversational voice API (~10x cheaper than ElevenLabs)?

Posted by willbdavenport on Monday December 29, 2025 @02:21PM
from the ask-hn dept.

I was building a real-time AI voice chat app and couldn’t make ElevenLabs work economically, their per-minute prices are way too high. I needed to find a solution that had: * expressive, human-sounding voices * low-latency * low costI couldn’t find anything that combined these, so I reluctantly built and self-hosted a conversational voice pipeline (STT → LLM → TTS). It sounds close to...

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Re:Show HN: I embedded 10M StreetView images on Thursday December 25, 2025 @04:43PM (#46387227)

Can it win at geoguesser?

Landing Page Battle

Posted by willbdavenport on Friday February 28, 2025 @04:13PM
from the twitter.com dept.

https://twitter.com/BrettFromDJ/status/1895548716528062828

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Re:Landing Page Battle on Friday February 28, 2025 @04:13PM (#43211055)

This landing page battle has me wondering, what are most technical people using to build landing pages? I've been building mine using React in the same way I build the rest of my sites, but it seems like it might be overkill since it's all about design without any real functionality. What are most real web developers using?

Re:Jeep Introduces Pop-Up Ads That Appear Every Time You Stop on Tuesday February 11, 2025 @02:42AM (#43010093)

If I needed a reminder to never buy a Jeep

Re:Show HN: I built an AI-powered scraping API on Tuesday February 11, 2025 @02:40AM (#43010073)

Is this different than https://www.firecrawl.dev/

Re:Show HN: CodeSandbox SDK – Sandboxes for AI Agents on Friday December 13, 2024 @01:45AM (#42406425)

The details of how this works are somewhat confusing, might be nice to have a video tutorial here of a simple usecase

Re:Show HN: Surfer Protocol – Export and build applications with your ... on Friday December 13, 2024 @01:43AM (#42406418)

The first B2C version

Re:Show HN: I designed an espresso machine and coffee grinder from scr... on Friday December 13, 2024 @01:32AM (#42406375)

Beautiful design. Curious since you mention the issues with plastic, what's the part that you couldn't avoid plastic for the trefolo (given you mention it's 0.01% plastic)?

Re:Show HN: TripClub – Plan Travel with AI on Thursday August 03, 2023 @08:54PM (#36994088)

Appreciate you sending your trip for reference. We've seen some funkiness like this happen at times which we're looking into at the moment. This is a particularly weird one.

I'm jealous of your plans for a bicycle tour near Tarvisio, sounds like it'll be an epic trip!

Re:Show HN: TripClub – Plan Travel with AI on Thursday August 03, 2023 @05:00PM (#36991822)

But in all seriousness we definitely need to work on the suggested times

Re:Show HN: TripClub – Plan Travel with AI on Thursday August 03, 2023 @04:59PM (#36991811)

Maybe the assumption is that you never stopped drinking?

Re:Show HN: TripClub – Plan Travel with AI on Thursday August 03, 2023 @01:06PM (#36988597)

Pushed up a change so you can now play around with the app without signing up

Re:Show HN: TripClub – Plan Travel with AI on Thursday August 03, 2023 @12:37PM (#36988180)

Appreciate the feedback, I do agree we're going to change that. For now if you want to try it and see the results there's nothing beyond creating an account with your email (no payment etc)