່ @Voice

Vapi (@Vapi_AI) is the platform for building and deploying voice AI agents. It now serves about a billion calls a year for companies including Amazon, Uber, and Intuit, helping businesses automate phone calls with AI. Voice is becoming the default interface between businesses and their customers, but getting agents reliable enough for production is still much harder than it looks. In this episode of Founder Firesides, co-founders @jordan_dearsley and @nikhilro_ sit down with @gustaf to share the long path to product-market fit, from pivoting more than a dozen times to building an AI therapist that eventually became the foundation for Vapi. They explain why voice was the first idea that felt inevitable, and how sticking with that conviction before the technology was ready eventually paid off. 00:05 — Powering a billion calls a year 02:12 — Why voice AI suddenly started working 04:57 — More than a dozen pivots 09:08 — From calendar app to AI note taker 13:23 — Starting over in San Francisco 14:14 — The AI therapist that became Vapi 17:56 — Finding PMF 22:47 — Why the model labs won’t replace Vapi 26:49 — The future of voice AI

Voice gives AI soul

@rushank_goyal @Ar_boian You get it

extremely excited to enter the “voice era” of ai . gpt voice is amazing and im excited to see claude is also getting there fast

Claude @claudeai

3 months ago

Voice mode now runs on Claude's more capable models and reaches the tools you've connected mid-conversation. Talk through the hard problems out loud, in many more languages.

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voice makes you feel just how unnatural it is to type

OpenAI @OpenAI

3 months ago

ChatGPT Voice is now in the desktop app. Control your computer and direct multiple agents running in ChatGPT Work or Codex, using just your voice. It's powered by GPT-Live, so it can speak, listen, and coordinate work in the app at the same time. Rolling out globally today

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Today Hume is introducing Real World VoiceEQ: a benchmark for measuring the human quality of voice AI across 40+ proprietary and open-source models, 15+ dimensions, and 60+ metrics—developed from more than 1 million individual human ratings.

This one was unexpected... I was not excited for voice models until I tried this one. It's VERY realistic, almost spooky. The coolest part.. the model can search the internet.. fast. And if you've spent any time with GPT-Realtime-2 You know, these voice models are getting very good at using tools. Soon (i'm guessing) you'll be able to do your email, check on business data, schedule meetings, and basically anything... just by chatting with this voice model. The tech is basically already there for Jarvis. The only thing left is a generative UI layer...

OpenAI @OpenAI

3 months ago

Listen up. Livestream at 10am.

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Every essay I've written this past week started as a ChatGPT Voice conversation on my walk home. I'd tell it: I'm going to brainstorm and dictate an essay. Don't interrupt unless I make a point worth pulling on or say something that needs clarification. Then I'd talk for 20 minutes. It might chime in five or six times with small things like "yep," "I see," or "good idea." Just enough to feel like someone was listening. It made me much more comfortable thinking out loud. The best part was that if it started responding and I kept talking, it would go, "oh, sorry, keep going." When I finished, I'd ask, "hey, what was the thing you wanted to mention?" and we'd pick that thread right back up. It is one thing to have a cool demo on YouTube, but it's another to enable this for millions of people around the world. I have already tested this out to talk to other people in different languages, to brainstorm ideas, to teach me new concepts. At OpenAI, our mission is to ensure that artificial general intelligence benefits all of humanity, and I think a model like this is a huge step forward beyond work, for all people, at a scale only we can serve.

GPT-live (next-generation voice) launches today in ChatGPT. it feels magical and 'real'. i have always preferred typing to talking to an AI, now i think that's going to shift.

@katosaku0116 Cute squirrel <3 Thanks for sharing

@PuckTalent What a beautiful edit, really feel the vibe between the two <3 Thanks, Mr. Perfect

@YafahEdelman A song that was solely created by less than 2000 total words of AI prompting and no additional audio recording/engineering goes #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 (the artist can upload any recordings they did for prior songs to the AI)

Voice is the new computer interface. It makes technology disappear and creates magical experiences. To all my coworkers who spent years listening to me talking to my computer. This is it. It’s your turn now.

OpenAI @OpenAI

5 months ago

Introducing GPT-Realtime-2 in the API: our most intelligent voice model yet, bringing GPT-5-class reasoning to voice agents. Voice agents are now real-time collaborators that can listen, reason, and solve complex problems as conversations unfold. Now available in the API

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@mdotbrown Best of 5 is to the worse team’s advantage. They’ll all take that, you’re just helping them. Not against this, just noting. Apologies if you were already factoring this in

Gemini Voice really is a cut above. It’s incredible. Coming to GBrain and your OpenClaw/Hermes shortly

Logan Kilpatrick @OfficialLoganK

6 months ago

Introducing Gemini 3.1 Flash TTS 🗣️, our latest text to speech model with scene direction, speaker level specificity, audio tags, more natural + expressive voices, and support for 70 different languages. Available via our new audio playground in AI Studio and in the Gemini API!

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@BennettRayford @RealTopTenLists @simspron86522 @DKThomp Bradford & Simspron, in other sports, especially football, the seeding LEGIT matters in that if you took the same teams and scrambled the seeding, the odds of victory for each team would meaningfully change

@garrytan We await your arrival!

It’s official, Gemini Live 2.5 voice agent is the best It’s smart, it’s fast, it has large enough context Coming to GBrain Voice shortly

When your voice agent debugs your slides live @charlierguo is using gpt-realtime-1.5

people keep saying...

vie ⟢ @viemccoy

7 months ago

@tyler_m_john Im so voice-pilled it's insane

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