#voice-first
8 episodes
#2911: Building a $180 Privacy-First AI Wearable
How Omi's $99 dev kit lets you build a local-first voice productivity system that watches your screen.
#2597: Voice Control for Renters: $25 Per Room, No Wall Damage
Distributed voice control on a budget with wake words, centralized processing, and zero wall damage — perfect for rentals.
#2510: The Design That Makes Voice Agents Tolerable
Drive-thru accuracy, healthcare triage, and the design secret that makes people *want* to talk to a machine.
#2479: The Screaming Baby Stress Test
Choosing the right headset and control method for dictation when you're holding a baby who won't stop screaming.
#2348: Diffusion Models Take on Text Generation
Explore Inception Labs’ Mercury 2, a groundbreaking diffusion-based language model that rethinks text generation and reasoning.
#1564: The Death of the Cascaded Pipeline
Forget basic transcription. Explore how native omni-modal models are capturing the "soul" of speech with near-instant latency.
#153: Acoustic Hygiene: Why Your Room Is Your Most Important AI Hardware
Learn how to transform your home office into a high-performance voice-first workspace using acoustic hygiene and ergonomic IKEA furniture hacks.
#145: The Ergonomic Case for Eyes-Free Computing
Tired of being tethered to your screen? Herman and Corn explore the future of voice-first productivity and the rise of autonomous AI agents.