Mati Staniszewski: observation

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…This is like an open-ended adventure game. Open-ended. You could ask follow-up questions, you could clarify. But people were just more at ease and could trust the system while doing that, that it's working. That helped us a lot. Then free, which maybe it's more of a technological barrier, it also works across all languages. Now we have leads from all parts of the world coming in and leaving their details. We did that use case, and now we have a few different companies building their SDR versions of that, too, to help them capture the leads coming in from banks all the way to actually one of the automotive companies that leaves that where people are just more keen to speak through voice. I want to ask about this second-order effects. You've talked in the past about how growing up in Poland, I guess the dubbing of TV shows, they were cheap, and so they would only have one voice actor for a TV show. No matter all the parts, male and female, they're like, "I love you." "I love you, too." There's one voice actor doing all of them. Now, thanks to better voice models, you'll be able to just have really good voices, AI-generated, for all the dubbing. Because again, it's not like it's taking jobs from great dubbing that was happening previously. It was awful dubbing happening in Poland previously. That's one example of the second-order effect. What are the other second-order effects you're seeing of ubiquitous good text-to-speech, speech-to-text? It seems like across a broad array of languages, because whatever in English, just this didn't exist in Polish or Irish or, pick your language.…

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