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Life & fun · February 16, 2024

A real-time speech-language model for $10 of training

A real-time speech-language model for $10 of training launched on February 16, 2024 with 5 votes and more than 50% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 2 years on.

What it does

Tincans’ mission is to deploy end-to-end conversational voice agents – talking to a bot should feel like talking to a human. We’re applying these voice agents to automate and improve the sales funnel for our customers. Today, many people have built conversational voice AI systems utilizing a cascaded approach: first, converting speech to text via an ASR system, generating a reply to the transcribed text with an LLM, and finally generating text to speech via some other system. While the results can be impressive - Tincans’s v0 internal cascaded system can consistently achieve 300ms time to respond without filler words or caching - there are several fundamental gaps that limit the ability of…from tincans.ai

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