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I pitched this on a recently thread, but it was 12+ hours after it was posted, so I'll try again here. What I really want is a program to waste the time of pho
by tasty_freeze 4y ago
I pitched this on a recently thread, but it was 12+ hours after it was posted, so I'll try again here.
What I really want is a program to waste the time of phone calls making unsolicited sales pitches.
It would do voice to text, run a simple language model to generate responses, then synthesize the voice back. It doesn't need to be a sophisticated model, not much more sophisticated than the classic "Eliza" program. A few years back someone did this with a canned loop of vague responses and it fooled the sales people for surprisingly long:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XSoOrlh5i1k https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XSoOrlh5i1k
It seems like it could all run locally for low latency. Probably the most important part to get right would be a TTS system that isn't immediately pegged as a robot.
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- Zetaphor 4y agoHave you seen Lenny? It's a much lower tech solution that seems to work quite well. https://lennytroll.com/ https://lennytroll.com/
- tasty_freeze 4y agoYes, that was the youtube video I linked to. If that can be successful with some telemarketers, I'm sure a chat-gpt aided program could be even more successful at frustrating telemarketers.
- mdaniel 4y agojust in case someone finds that YT video entertaining, you'll really love https://www.youtube.com/@KitbogaShow https://www.youtube.com/@KitbogaShow