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156 points Sean-Der | 2 comments | 12 Oct 25 14:15 UTC | HN request time: 0.001s | 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.

1. pants2 ◴[14 Oct 25 04:07 UTC] No.45576167[source]▶
ChatGPT had Santa mode last year where you could talk to Santa using Advanced Voice. I thought it was pretty cool because as adults we're used to turn-based conversation, speaking clearly, and waiting for a response.

That did not happen when I tried it with my nieces and nephews. Lots of screaming, incoherent AND I I I REALLY I WANT, yelling over Santa as he was responding, etc. It was a complete flop.

Anyway I would be astonished if this works well for younger kids.

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2. Sean-Der ◴[14 Oct 25 13:50 UTC] No.45580034[source]▶
It definitely takes coaching to use it. My daughter will interrupt and waits for Santa to repeat himself (and it doesn’t)

As technology gets better I’m excited for turn based voice ai to go away :)