... Those improvements may also pull voice input deeper into apps , creating opportunities for third-party tools to power native voice experiences. Voice Agents are becoming Infrastructure There s a growing ecosystem underneath all of this: @Vapi @Pipecat @LiveKit @Coval This is the voice agent infra layer, a category we ll cover in later Orbit Awards. Comment from Rajiv Ayyangar(@rajiv_ayyangar): This is a new award series we're really excited about! Lots of credit to @aaronoleary and others ...

... /pipecat-gemini-yc25 - We re excited to announce a special voice and realtime AI hackathon hosted by @Daily.co (W16) and Google @DeepMind at the YC office on October 11. Build multimodal AI applications, work with engineers from Google, Daily, @BAML (W23), @Coval (S24), @Langfuse (W23), @Tavus (S21), and the AI Tinkerers community. Win prizes like a guaranteed YC interview , lunch with Google engineers, special swag. Due to limited space, please be sure to sign up in advance to reserve your spot. Comment ...

... companies for the month-long Voice AI course and community events series that starts this week. Join Voice AI experts from OpenAI, Google, NVIDIA, AWS for Zoom sessions (or watch them async). $10k in credits from Baseten, Cartesia, Cerebrium, Coval, Daily, Deepgram, fal, Fireworks AI, Freeplay, Gladia, Layercode, mem0, Modal, OpenPipe, PlayAI, Rime Labs, Tavus, Ultravox, Vapi, and Weights & Biases. Special Product Hunt deal through this link ($200 for the course, discounted from the $500 full price): https://maven.com ...

... last few months - with @Aqua Voice / @Wispr Flow I type 50% less. Plus the building blocks for voice AI are getting really good (e.g. RTC @Daily.co / open source orchestration @Pipecat / voice agent platform @Vapi / evals for voice agents @Coval ) I'm also super bullish on design founders, especially since the human-AI interface landscape is currently pretty primitive. I think we need to break out of the chat/autocomplete UX paradigm. Also, personal finance and personal assistants are historically really fraught ...

... capabilities of the core models are complemented by the recent progress in the orchestration layer. As a side note, it's cool to see how collaborative and fast-moving the companies in the space are. E.g. Vapi, Daily / Pipecat, Coval...it's a tight community which allows lots of speed while still having the building blocks fit together. At least that's my feeling as a somewhat outside observer ...