Ben Johnston

Voice AI engineer 🇮🇪

[Ben Johnston @benjohnstonsf]

A thread on how great decision making orgs think about decisions.

Covering:
- why good decision processes are so impactful
- how to make better, faster decisions
- frameworks & tools

Decisions can be systematized, like an assembly line. Read on to learn how👇

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@rohindhar what about sunset? seeing some crazy sales recently.

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@wesyang @Noahpinion Scaling stalled and the limits of agents are coming into view, so existential panic doesn't pitch to investors like it used to. Cal Newport's been making the moderate case for a while: https://t.co/X73XJBMdbx

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@ArtinBogdanov @sunapp_ai @a16z @speedrun Been waiting hours for a course generation. Is that expected

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@amorriscode Does this really only work when you have Claude open?

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@chalupacaleb Loving it. mic selection and paste last transcript should be in menu bar dropdown.

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@DanielLurie @RecParkSF My friend lost $8K in sales on her biggest shopping day of the whole year. Has completely fucked her. Retail should be compensated by PG&E

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@hehe6z Can you use it with Livekit?

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@JoelEngardio Very sorry to hear. What a lovely tribute from a son who must have made her so proud.

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@awilkinson It’s the letterboxd of event platforms. Hint hint.

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@thogge @chrislhayes 1. Haha 2. But seriously though is fucking concerning no?

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@DanielLurie You should try and get @hookfishco to open a location there. Food options are diabolical right now.

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@tyler_agg Memory

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@ElevenLabsDevs @expo Didn’t this sdk already exist? What is new?

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@wendythecutter @JoelEngardio ai

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@Sharkyl Is the song at the end on Spotify? So good.

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@ElevenLabsDevs Does the conversation agent support push-to-talk functionality i.e. agent doesn't respond until user releases button. turn detection tech doesn't work for contemplative answers with lots of pauses.

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@GianmarcoSoresi 10 seconds left: “I thought this was a joke about France, how can he possibl…. Oh”. 🤯 🤯 🤯

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@thorwebdev @ElevenLabsDevs For the widget but also I would imagine it’s not super trivial in tue white label scenario. If I’m in talk mode ie I am pushing down. Then the turn detection layer should essentially b disabled until release. Am I thinking about it wrong? Any push to talk code samples out there?

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@ElevenLabsDevs is there a 'push to talk' mode for conversation agents? this seems like it would be an incredibly common use case and I don't see any mention of it. as good as the interruption handling is for v2 it's not there yet for slow contemplative user answers.