One metric for impact is how much damage it causes to established players. In the loop of voice -> agent -> voice, the cartel left only one edge out. Voice to

One metric for impact is how much damage it causes to established players. In the loop of voice -> agent -> voice, the cartel left only one edge out. Voice to text/latent? Whisper is good. LLMs? They’re everywhere. LLaMA 2 is practically state of the art and it’s licensed for commercial use. Latent/Text -> voice? Best you can get open is T5, which is ok, but it’s no Voicebox or whatever. They launch new SOTA’s every month or two, but no weights, no code. Stay dangerous. You want to work on that? I’ll do it with you. On books, to get up and rolling I’d recommend Raschka, Liu, and Mirjalili. The one even the PhDs should re-read is MacKay.