I forgot that we're playing the demo games now.
Well I'll see your demo, and raise you another demo
https://x.com/sean_moriarity/status/1760435005119934862
Except that demo was done by a single person, with a day job and no cap table.
Well I'll see your demo, and raise you another demo
https://x.com/sean_moriarity/status/1760435005119934862
Except that demo was done by a single person, with a day job and no cap table.
Playing around with the Nero demo, it also feels pretty... broken? I never actually managed to make a booking with Nero; it seemed to often not be able to tell I was done speaking, and would just hang after a couple back-and-forths. Still impressive for a one-man demo built quickly, but they don't feel in the same league.
I do wish Retell's pricing was cheaper, though; $6/hr is pretty much the cost of a call center employee in India, and LLMs still perform below the average human on most things. That being said, I imagine the cost of Retell will come down as the tech advances, and LLMs will also improve over time.
The unnatural voices happen I think because for some reason the way I stream audio to the browser breaks up the audio from ElevenLabs, so you get almost this “start/stop” sound that makes it sound worse than usual.
There’s a lot of minor details to get right, but it’s a fun problem to try to solve. I wish Retell the best :)