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xan_ps007on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (September 2024)

Bolna open source voice AI | Software engineering (Multiple roles) | Remote (SF) | https://github.com/bolna-ai/bolna Bolna is building an open source orchestration for Voice AI and we're looking for software engineers (platform, infra, AI/ML, dev-rels, etc) having rich experience in Python.

Please email your CV or contact us to learn more: "founders [AT] bolna [DOT] dev". Please send us some past work that we can see! TIA.

xan_ps007on Launch HN: Hamming (YC S24) – Automated Testing for Voice Agents

Sure! Would love to discuss synergies and if we can integrate it. Thanks & all the best!

xan_ps007on Launch HN: Hamming (YC S24) – Automated Testing for Voice Agents

is there an open source variant available? I am building https://github.com/bolna-ai/bolna which is an open source voice orchestration.

would love to have something like this integrated as part of our open source stack.

xan_ps007on Show HN: Bolna – build and ship enterprise grade voice AI in minutes

hey! that's a great question. Initially, we had multiple processes for every component (ASR, LLM, TTS) and using a configurable settings pair of endpointing and token_size we used to handle it since for some cases latency might be an issue but some some others (where there are longer responses) it might not be that much of an issue. Later on, we also integrated with caching and routing to minimize unnecessary calls.

xan_ps007on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (August 2024)

Bolna open source voice AI | Software engineering (Multiple roles) | Remote (SF) | https://github.com/bolna-ai/bolna Bolna is building an open source orchestration for Voice AI and we're looking for software engineers (platform, infra, AI/ML, dev-rels, etc) having rich experience in Python.

Please email your CV or contact us to learn more: "founders [AT] bolna [DOT] dev"

xan_ps007on Voice Isolator: Strip background noise for film, podcast, interview production

We have built a dockerized open source stack for Whisper + Llama3 + MeloTTS. Whisper and MeloTTS for now works fine for our use cases. https://github.com/bolna-ai/bolna/tree/master/examples/whisp...

xan_ps007on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (July 2024)

Bolna open source voice AI | Software engineering (Multiple roles) | Remote (SF) | https://github.com/bolna-ai/bolna

Bolna is building an open source orchestration for Voice AI and we're looking for software engineers (platform, infra, AI/ML, dev-rels, etc) having rich experience in Python.

Please email your CV or contact us to learn more: "founders [AT] bolna [DOT] dev"

xan_ps007on Ask HN: Is open sourcing your code still an option with the rise of AI?

We open sourced our project long back - https://github.com/bolna-ai/bolna because eventually it'll be fed to the agent one way or the other :)

xan_ps007on Show HN: Local voice assistant using Ollama, transformers and Coqui TTS toolkit

As mentioned few days before, we just released the end to end open source stack at https://github.com/bolna-ai/bolna/tree/master/examples/whisp...

xan_ps007on Show HN: Local voice assistant using Ollama, transformers and Coqui TTS toolkit

Today we released our full open source end to end ASR+LLM+TTS dockerized stack at ->

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40789200

xan_ps007on Show HN: Local voice assistant using Ollama, transformers and Coqui TTS toolkit

What we have learnt is that big enterprises do not really want to use close source models due to the random bursts in usage which might drain their bills.

xan_ps007on Show HN: Local voice assistant using Ollama, transformers and Coqui TTS toolkit

we have made an open source orchestration which enables you to plug in your own TTS/ASR/LLM for end-to-end voice conversations at -> https://github.com/bolna-ai/bolna.

We are also working on a complete open source stack for ASR+TTS+LLM and will be releasing it shortly.

xan_ps007on Should I focus on GitHub stars or forks for my open source project?

Hi HN,

We have been in a pretty interesting case where the forks/stars ratio has been > 30% and growing steadliy in this ratio.

We understand that stars might be a vanity metric and hence we are focusing more on the number of forks and talking to developers using us.

Wanted to know about the experience on stars v/s forks towards growing the community and the overall project as to what worked best and what things we can avoid. I do undertand that every use-case might be different.

Thank you.

xan_ps007on Show HN: Formshare.ai – free conversational AI forms for smart data collection

I thought this was "conversational" where the end user was speaking and the form was automatically getting filled up. This was something which we were actually looking to build as a use-case on top of our voice orchestration @ bolna.

xan_ps007on The Time I Convinced the CTO Not to Outsource Our Developers

We're facing something similar - we tend to think of outsourcing all things that don't seem to be critical or P0.

xan_ps007on Show HN: An open source framework for voice assistants

We're also building bolna an open source voice orchestration: https://github.com/bolna-ai/bolna

xan_ps007on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (January 2020)

What do Microsoft, The Gap, Royal Bank of Scotland, Lockheed Martin, and top Open Source projects like JQuery have in common? They all use BrowserStack.

Today, more than 25,000 global customers in every sector rely on us as the world’s most reliable web and mobile browser testing platform.

BrowserStack is the industry-leading, cloud web and mobile testing platform that enables developers to test their websites and apps on different operating systems and mobile devices. Since launching in 2011, our mission has been bold yet simple: To be the testing infrastructure for the internet. 8 years and billions of tests later, we are ready for our next phase of hyper-growth.

Come join us! Email me: prateek [at] browserstack [dot] com.

xan_ps007on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (December 2019)

What do Microsoft, The Gap, Royal Bank of Scotland, Lockheed Martin, and top Open Source projects like JQuery have in common? They all use BrowserStack.

Today, more than 25,000 global customers in every sector rely on us as the world’s most reliable web and mobile browser testing platform.

BrowserStack is the industry-leading, cloud web and mobile testing platform that enables developers to test their websites and apps on different operating systems and mobile devices. Since launching in 2011, our mission has been bold yet simple: To be the testing infrastructure for the internet. 8 years and billions of tests later, we are ready for our next phase of hyper-growth.

Come join us! Email me: prateek [at] browserstack [dot] com.

xan_ps007on PagerDuty pops nearly 60% in debut as tech IPO market heats up

How does the IPO works in US? Do retail investors get to subscribe to the IPO shares before the listing date? Or the retails investors can only "buy" the shares once they start trading on the exchanges?

xan_ps007on AdNauseam – clicking ads so you don't have to

Amazing concept. My only problem is the permissions it's asking while I tried to install it on firefox.

- Access your data for all websites [You could take away my passwords]

- Download files and read and modify the browser’s download history [Why?]

- Access browser activity during navigation [Why?]