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156 points Sean-Der | 4 comments | 12 Oct 25 14:15 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source

Alt link: https://mrchristmas.com/products/santas-magical-telephone

Video demo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0z7QJxZWFQg

The first time I talked with AI santa and it responded with a joke I was HOOKED. The fun/nonsense doesn't click until you try it yourself. What's even more exciting is you can build it yourself:

libpeer: https://github.com/sepfy/libpeer

pion: https://github.com/pion/webrtc

Then go do all your fun logic in your Pion server. Connect to any Voice AI provider, or roll your own via Open Source. Anything is possible.

If you have questions or hit any roadblocks I would love to help you. I have lots of hardware snippets on my GitHub: https://github.com/sean-der.

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mosura ◴[13 Oct 25 22:12 UTC] No.45573883[source]▶
I can’t help feeling this technology will end up more widely deployed for a related but less wholesome application.
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1. Sean-Der ◴[14 Oct 25 01:19 UTC] No.45575200[source]▶
It's already happening! I went to https://vapi.ai/vapicon and the stuff that people are already building is bonkers.

It would be naive to think that this technology would only be used for good. I have been working on Pion WebRTC for years though and have see lots of stuff getting built that didn't feel great. Not sure what I can do though.

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2. RyanOD ◴[14 Oct 25 02:30 UTC] No.45575639[source]▶
Care to share some examples? I'm curious...
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3. Sean-Der ◴[14 Oct 25 02:45 UTC] No.45575727[source]▶
Vapicon or Pion examples?
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4. noman-land ◴[14 Oct 25 02:53 UTC] No.45575771{3}[source]▶
Yes.