alt Hacker NewsYep, we have been quite set on nose pads to keep them comfortable. I will keep you updated with the designs!
The decoding is done via a companion app on your laptop or phone in the cloud, but end to end latency is still quite fast, under 500ms usually.
To begin with we don't plan to have a wake word, but rather a trigger key on your connected device that you're entering text into (pressing Alt for example), similar to Wispr Flow. We're doing some R&D into the silent speech equivalent of voice activity detection, so we have a low power basic RF detection always-on, not enough to decode speech from but enough to detect rough movement, and when it detects speech-like activity beginning to start we can trigger full sensing within tens of ms. This would likely ship as a software update a few months after shipping, though.
The voice change demo is something I've thought about actually, but we never got around to doing. Might film it soon :)
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I just want to say 500ms isn’t fast.
Wait. You are taking the RF response, sending it up to the cloud to interpret, and then sending the result back? Hard pass from me, sorry. Cool tech, but I don’t want my internal thoughts anywhere near the cloud. Also, this would mean I couldn’t use something like this on the subway when the phone signal goes out intermittently, right?
Super cool. For a cool voice change demo we'll allow a gb200 over low latency wifi :) elevenlabs has deals with a number of professional actors and voice actors for licensed uses, seems like you could probably find an ethical and cool co-brand opportunity in there.
Have fun building this! It's worth doing.