Thomas Yuill retweeted
Today we’ve raised $52M Seed and we are announcing the public launch of S2.1 Pro.
>It can clone a voice from 5 seconds of audio
>2x faster than Cartesia & 1/6th the cost of Eleven Labs
>most expressive model with word level control over emotion, intonation, pacing etc
We support frontier AI companies including HeyGen, LiveKit, Retell, Sanas, and OpenArt all run our model in production.
If you're a business and we can't cut your voice AI costs by 50%, we'll give you 1 year of Fish Audio for free.
Book a demo: s.fish.audio/tmapke
To celebrate our first birthday, we'll give you 1 month of S2.1 Pro for free. Like, retweet, and comment “Fish” to get it.
Thomas Yuill retweeted
“Voice makes AI feel less like a tool and more like a natural part of the experience…LiveKit gives us the scalable foundation to bring those voice experiences to life at enterprise scale, without sacrificing flexibility.” Jonathan von Rüden, @SAP's Chief AI Officer.
Thomas Yuill retweeted
Thomas Yuill retweeted
How can a voice agent tell when you’re actually interrupting it?
VAD is too sensitive—laughs, “mm-hmm,” or a sneeze shouldn’t stop the agent.
We trained an audio model for adaptive interruption handling so agents can distinguish real interruptions from noise.
Thomas Yuill retweeted
Our @DeepgramAI plugin now supports mid-stream control messages for Flux, so you can update keyterms in real time as conversational context evolves, without disconnecting and reconnecting.
Watch me add a keyterm in real time for my name, which every STT always gets wrong!
RT @livekit: Grok's Text to Speech API is now available in LiveKit Inference.
Natural, expressive voices with low-latency streaming. Multi…
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Thomas Yuill retweeted
Built a skill that lets you run your own voice agents w/ any model on your Rabbit r1, including models running locally on your home hardware.
‘npx skills add ShayneP/rabbit-r1-livekit-skill’
Then just tell Claude or Codex what you want and scan the QR code at the end.
Thomas Yuill retweeted
Partnered with @livekit to help bring this shader to voice agents. Cool project!
Introducing Agents UI, an open-source @shadcn component library for building polished React frontends for your voice agents.
Audio visualizers. Media controls. Session management tools. Chat transcripts. All wired to LiveKit Agents.
Install via the shadcn CLI and own the code.
Thomas Yuill retweeted
Introducing Agents UI, an open-source @shadcn component library for building polished React frontends for your voice agents.
Audio visualizers. Media controls. Session management tools. Chat transcripts. All wired to LiveKit Agents.
Install via the shadcn CLI and own the code.
Thomas Yuill retweeted
AI avatar + LiveKit Agents demo: a healthcare intake assistant powered by @Anam__ai that guides someone through a form.
LiveKit is the developer platform for real-time voice, video, and AI agents, with WebRTC transport plus the tooling to build, run, and observe agents in production.
Try it for yourself and let us know what you think: livekit-anam.vercel.app
Thomas Yuill retweeted
Come join us at our next Physical AI Meetup, where we'll be discussing the challenges of deploying robots in homes with @tonyzzhao from @sundayrobotics, @itsdanielho from @1x_tech, and @kaandogrusoz from @weaverobotics! 🤖🤖🤖
luma.com/physical-ai-meetup-…
Thomas Yuill retweeted
TTS-1.5 by @inworld is out, and that means I get to build another interactive demo!
There's no better voice provider for this kind of game, the price is ridiculously low and the voices have tons of character.
Check out the demo where I play an interactive voice-first RPG.
Thomas Yuill retweeted
Happy holidays from LiveKit!
2025 was incredible. We launched:
- Agent Builder
- Phone Numbers
- Observability
- Agents on Cloud
- Node.js Agents
- Inference
- and more..
Plus an amazing DevDay with 200+ developers.
Grateful for this community. Here's to building more in 2026!
Thomas Yuill retweeted
We partnered with @EspressifSystem to ship a full-featured LiveKit SDK for ESP32 microcontrollers, optimized for realtime media on resource constrained devices.
From wearable assistants to AI video avatar intercoms to smart security cameras, there are so many things you can now build on tiny hardware.
blog.livekit.io/livekit-sdk-…
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This is a big deal.
Most of the voice AI community says that speech-to-speech models aren’t ready for production use cases.
Two reasons:
1. Reliability (more hallucinations)
2. Cost (s2s models are expensive)
On (1), Grok’s Voice Agent API is already running at large scale across Grok’s apps, in Tesla vehicles, and in call centers. There’s more work to do, of course, but progress is being made quickly.
On (2), you get SOTA performance for $0.05/minute, which meets or beats aggregate cascade model (STT+LLM+TTS) pricing.
Excited to partner with @xai on this launch — you can build a custom Grok Voice Agent with workflows, tool calling, the whole shebang, in a few lines of @livekit code.
The future of speech-to-speech is bright!
Today, we're excited to launch the Grok Voice Agent API, empowering developers to build voice agents that speak dozens of languages, call tools, and search realtime data.
x.ai/news/grok-voice-agent-a…
