AI toy I worked on is in stores
Alt link: https://mrchristmas.com/products/santas-magical-telephone Video demo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0z7QJxZWFQg The first time I talked with AI santa and it responded with a joke I was HOOKED. The fun/nonsense doesn't click until you try it yourself. What's even more exciting is you can build it yourself: libpeer: https://github.com/sepfy/libpeer pion: https://github.com/pion/webrtc Then go do all your fun logic in your Pion server. Connect to any Voice AI provider, or roll your own via Open Source.…
In plain words
Santa's Magical Telephone is an AI-powered toy phone available in stores that lets users have voice conversations with an AI Santa character. The product is designed for children who want interactive holiday entertainment. What distinguishes it is that users can build custom versions using open-source tools like libpeer and Pion WebRTC, connecting to any voice AI provider or creating their own logic server.
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In the maker’s words, at launch
Alt link: https://mrchristmas.com/products/santas-magical-telephone Video demo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0z7QJxZWFQg The first time I talked with AI santa and it responded with a joke I was HOOKED. The fun/nonsense doesn't click until you try it yourself. What's even more exciting is you can build it yourself: libpeer: https://github.com/sepfy/libpeer pion: https://github.com/pion/webrtc Then go do all your fun logic in your Pion server. Connect to any Voice AI provider, or roll your own via Open Source. Anything is possible. If you have questions or hit any roadblocks I would love to help you. I have lots of hardware snippets on my GitHub: https://github.com/sean-der.
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