Anders Thuesen

Solving conversational intelligence @duplexio

[Anders Thuesen @anders_thuesen]

After a year of building, I'm finally ready to share what I've been working on.

Duo is a full-duplex speech-to-speech model that you can run on your laptop.

Stay tuned for more!

[duplexio @duplexio_ai]

Today, we're introducing Duo.

Duo is a full-duplex conversational AI. It listens while it speaks and hears your voice directly instead of a transcript, so it reacts to pauses, a quick "mm-hm" and interruptions as they happen.

[Anders Thuesen @anders_thuesen]

Getting good conversational speech data ain't easy.
But the guys from @agenticdataco rose to the challenge and helped gather the early datasets for Duo.

[Matias Voldby Drejer @matiasdrejer]

We believe most interaction with AI will happen through speech. But models still talk like machines.

This is a data problem.

Today we're launching @agenticdataco (YC F26): real-world speech data + audio-native RL environments so speech models sound and act human.

[Anders Thuesen @anders_thuesen]

@matiasdrejer @agenticdataco Congratulations on launching, guys! Super excited to learn more about your speech gym environments!

[Anders Thuesen @anders_thuesen]

@beknabdik @speko_ai Will let you know as soon as we have an endpoint you can benchmark against!

[Anders Thuesen @anders_thuesen]

After a year of building, I'm finally ready to share what I've been working on.

Duo is a full-duplex speech-to-speech model that you can run on your laptop.

Stay tuned for more!

[duplexio @duplexio_ai]

Today, we're introducing Duo.

Duo is a full-duplex conversational AI. It listens while it speaks and hears your voice directly instead of a transcript, so it reacts to pauses, a quick "mm-hm" and interruptions as they happen.

[Anders Thuesen @anders_thuesen]

@NicklasBorgen Thanks dude! 🙏🙏

[Anders Thuesen @anders_thuesen]

@romoh @duplexio_ai Thanks for reporting! Will look into it!

[Anders Thuesen @anders_thuesen]

@quantumflower11 About 6b, so runs on my m4 mbp in 8bit quant

[Anders Thuesen @anders_thuesen]

@Marcvegaferrera @duplexio_ai English only for now, but eventually!

[Anders Thuesen @anders_thuesen]

@ActuallyIsaak @duplexio_ai Cool! I really like JOSIE’s UI 🥹

[Anders Thuesen @anders_thuesen]

@MehtaRut @duplexio_ai Working on a technical blogpost with benchmarks, so stay tuned!

[Anders Thuesen @anders_thuesen]

@MehtaRut @duplexio_ai It can! They run in parallel will the conversation, so they don’t block the conversation while they’re waiting to resolve

[Anders Thuesen @anders_thuesen]

@antoinenys_ Sure, please dm!

[Anders Thuesen @anders_thuesen]

@TAAFTResearch @duplexio_ai Just me and @duarteocarmo so far :)

[Anders Thuesen @anders_thuesen]

@WolfyBlair @duplexio_ai Thanks!🙏

[Anders Thuesen @anders_thuesen]

@5uck1ess @duplexio_ai Soon!

[Anders Thuesen @anders_thuesen]

@antoinenys_ It does! And it will even stay responsive while the tool calls are resolving

[Anders Thuesen @anders_thuesen]

@rikuvs Sure! What are you building?

[Anders Thuesen @anders_thuesen]

@matiasdrejer Thanks a lot, buddy! Excited to see how @agenticdataco will help take FD models to the next level!

[Anders Thuesen @anders_thuesen]

@pablogimenezz Yes for now, but working on it! 🇪🇸

[Anders Thuesen @anders_thuesen]

@deinakellezi Thank you Deina! And thanks for all your help so far!

[Anders Thuesen @anders_thuesen]

@ankerbachryhl 🚀!!