The Future of Voice Interaction (With Justin Uberti)

Justin Uberti, creator of WebRTC and now Founder of Fixie.ai, shares insights into the development of AI.town, a platform for engaging with AI personalities through voice, and the potential impact of conversational AI on various industries. Please support this podcast on Patreon! http://www.patreon.com/aiinsideshow INTERVIEW TOPICS - Introduction to Justin's background (WebRTC, Hangouts Video, Duo, Stadia) - The shift towards conversational AI and voice interactions - Fixie.ai and AI.town - enabling voice conversations with AI characters - Transitioning from text-based to voice-based AI interactions, potential use cases - Creating AI characters, enabling role-play conversations - Ethical considerations and voice cloning technology - The nature of human conversation (filler words, turn-taking protocols) - Incorporating human conversational quirks into AI speech - V1 vs V2 voice technology (speech recognition - text - speech vs. direct speech-to-speech) - Open-source speech AI model Ultravox.ai, leaderboard for fastest AI models (thefastest.ai) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices