Hmm someone needs to build an open source Alexa replacement with Whisper -> LangChain -> text to voice

Tech entrepreneur hanging out in Silicon Valley. Founder @gatsbyjs. @kylemathews on Twitter

Alexa and Google Home are really unpleasant to program against. I keep having ideas for them and then stop as my eyes melt looking over the 4k words getting started guide. They're also quite rigid which the new LLMs would get around neatly.

🙏 can't wait! Just want a little hackable Alexa. The one we have is nice but annoying

There’s like 100 of those in development, don’t worry lol

Ooo! As long as they have a flexible data transform inside like LangChain that'll be sweet

Investing and Engineering @a16z crypto. 

Did my time in big tech, since recovered.

what’s the best TTS these days? Silero?

Developer, I like AI, currently working on claros.so and https://getproduct.help

Yeah. This is where people already use Alexa or Siri. Mostly at home or by themselves it seems

Do you think there are cultural barriers to using speech-to-text (ex. on a train, in office)