Reading up on voice-ai
5 deep · digging since nov 25, 25
- Real-time Voice AI. Built to Scale.
Smallest AI argues that specialized small models operating on compressed representations, rather than monolithic large models, are the future of real-time voice AI.
- Gemini 3.1 Flash Live: Google’s latest AI audio model
Google released Gemini 3.1 Flash Live, its highest-quality audio model, for real-time dialogue across developer, enterprise, and consumer products.
- GitHub - RunanywhereAI/RCLI: Talk to your Mac, query your docs, no cloud required. On-device voice AI + RAG
RCLI is an open-source, on-device voice AI for macOS that runs STT, LLM, TTS, and VLM entirely locally on Apple Silicon, with sub-200ms latency and no cloud dependency.
- Tell HN: YC companies scrape GitHub activity, send spam emails to users
YC companies such as Run Anywhere scrape GitHub commit metadata to send unsolicited marketing emails to developers, violating GDPR and GitHub's terms of service.
- Voice AI doesn't need to be faster. It needs to read the room.
Voice AI needs to focus on conversational latency—matching response rhythm to task type, speaker profile, and perceived waiting time—rather than merely reducing milliseconds.