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by hassaanr 2y ago
Unfortunately, it looks like HN has given my little blog the hug of death. Should be back up soon
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by hassaanr 2y ago
It'll depend on the use case- but with customers that are using it today we're seeing higher engagement and satisfaction rates. It's a different interface to communicate that is more natural to humans (our bullish opinion).
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by hassaanr 2y ago
The way we see it is that this brings us closer to communicating with computers the way we communicate with each other. It has vision and can (not perfectly) take into account your expressions, your surroundings, and can respond accordingly
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by hassaanr 2y ago
Yeah we are! The issue we're seeing is with controllability and hallucinations in speech to speech models that we're trying to work through still
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by hassaanr 2y ago
Great point. This is possible with CVI, but we didn't build it into the demos. We'll get it added
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by hassaanr 2y ago
Glad we've been worth the follow :) Totally- we're seeing AI sales agents for calls, technical counterparts (think like AI sales engineer that joins the call with you), website embeds to answer initial questions or be a virtual sa
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Show HN: A real time AI video agent with under 1 second of latency
455 points by hassaanr 2y ago|256 comments
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by hassaanr 5y ago
Not a silly question at all! This is something we're still figuring out- when there should be disclosure that the video is generated. For some use cases (sales) it might hurt, however for others (e-learning) it might not matter at all.
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by hassaanr 5y ago
Programmable videos or "event driven" videos is one of the core functionalities of our platform, especially with the API. We have product teams that are sending out videos based on events taking place on their platforms and it lea
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by hassaanr 5y ago
Tavus doesn't require you to record names or dynamic variables at all after your initial recording, unlike send potion. We generate all content in your voice automatically- whether it's a name, a sentence about the weather or some
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by hassaanr 5y ago
Absolutely, e-learning and similar use cases are what excite me the most. We're working with a number of healthtech and e-learning startups doing exactly that- empowering creators to build content that is more personalized and immersiv
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by hassaanr 5y ago
Absolutely! We're continuously researching and learning about how we can make technology such as ours safer. Currently our platform has a number of mechanisms to prevent abuse. We require explicit voice disclosure to perform any traini
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by hassaanr 5y ago
Totally understand your viewpoint. The reality is though that sales is really just one use case and definitely not my (our) favorite. Our focus is more on product experiences and that's where most of our efforts are going towards now.
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by hassaanr 5y ago
This is a fantastic suggestion. Providing the end consumer perspective is definitely something we can do- we'll work on adding that to our website. Language learning is a super cool use case! We're working on other languages atm
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by hassaanr 5y ago
Wanna take some guesses? :)
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by hassaanr 5y ago
Absolutely! CX and onboarding are one of the key use cases we see a lot of success in.
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by hassaanr 5y ago
INB4 the roasts- we do limit what you can submit based on your template and preferences :)
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by hassaanr 5y ago
Shhhhh :’)
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by hassaanr 5y ago
Great question! At the moment we only support English, but are working on other languages to support as well. Any language in particular you’re looking for?
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by hassaanr 5y ago
And that’s the real goal! Building more awesome product experiences. We’re working with e-learning companies, telehealth and other industries where it just isn’t scalable to provide a personal touch that engages the end user. Starting a new
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by hassaanr 5y ago
Take a look at the original that’s linked in the playground- she was pretty uncanny naturally haha. TBH we notice because we’re looking for it specifically- 99% of people our videos have gone out to have not noticed until someone has disclo
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by hassaanr 5y ago
These are all good points. Do you see use cases that you’d personally find useful? For example we’re working with a telehealth company to provide weekly/monthly health updates that they otherwise would send through emails and people wo
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by hassaanr 5y ago
Our playground will let you put whatever you’d like.. However we are approving every use case manually to make sure it’s not crazy.
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by hassaanr 5y ago
Oof sorry to hear you had that experience. Not everyone wants generated content and that totally makes sense. To us this is the next evolution to something like MailChimp or as another commenter mentioned- handwriting style fonts in marketi
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by hassaanr 5y ago
It can be scary to see the gears of the machine. Sales is tough though and if this saves an SDR from spending hours making videos we think it’s beneficial. Video messaging is becoming the norm- this is just the next evolution. There are als
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by hassaanr 5y ago
HN is definitely more inquisitive and critical about things like these but the discussion is actually really helpful for us! Appreciate the thought!
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by hassaanr 5y ago
Totally agree. The thought is that this is the next evolution of mailmerge. A different way to consume the same content!
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by hassaanr 5y ago
I’ll have to give that one a read! For sales and marketing I definitely see HN crowd cringing a bit. However there are a lot of applications beyond such as onboarding, coaching, e-learning where we can build a sense of connection that other
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by hassaanr 5y ago
Interesting point! We’re not looking to fool anyone. More so we’re looking to provide more personalized experiences that otherwise weren’t possible because of the scalability issue. Think Tony stark personally welcoming you to an Iron Man v
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by hassaanr 5y ago
Agreed! The way we see it this is a tool to build a more efficient workflow just like mailmerge was when it was new- Sales/marketing is difficult and is getting more and more difficult by the day. SDRs will spend 12 hours recording 200

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