Tavus
AI
conversational video avatars
SHOW HN2024
How HN took it
35 positive, 47 neutral or asking, 23 mixed, 43 critical, out of 148 comments about the project. Thread score -0.04.
Privacy: 1 for, 19 againstIdea: 12 for, 4 againstDesign: 6 for, 8 againstPerformance: 4 for, 5 againstExecution: 2 for, 6 against
The thread, comment by comment
Each row is a top-level comment and its replies, in HN's order. Select a cell to open that comment on HN.
positive neutral or mixed critical about another commenter or something else the maker
What HN said
What people liked
Impressively low latency and realistic feel
From 3 comments
I had him be a Dungeon Master and start taking me through an adventure. Was very impressive and convincing (for the two minutes I was conversing), and the latency was really…
taude on HNThis was really good. The Hassan version was “better.” It picked up the background behind me and commented about how cool my models looked on the wall, and mentioned how great…
HorizonXP on HNI tested Carter and holy, it is so real. Sometimes I think I'm talking with a person and it's impolite to look at another screen while chatting. It's very impressive that I have…
tulip4attoo on HN
Technically impressive demo
From 2 comments
Incredibly impressive on a technical level. The Carter avatar seems to swallow nervously a lot (LOL), and there's some weirdness with the mouth/teeth, but it's quite responsive.…
turnsout on HNOkay, that was really impressive. Well done!
bradhilton on HN
Objections
Privacy and consent concerns about voice and face cloning
From 3 comments
Is anyone else thinking that it might not be a good idea to give away your voice and face to a startup that is making digital clones of people?
d2049 on HNno freaking way... I honestly don't know what to think... I had a very blunt conversation with the AI about using my data, face, etc. I was being generally antagonistic, saying…
TrapLord_Rhodo on HNHave to enter my email, no thanks.
theogravity on HN
Interrupts users and struggles with turn-taking
From 2 comments
I didn't have a great experience. Perhaps load issues, or the HN hug of death? I found that the AI kept cutting me off, and not leaving time in the conversation to respond. It…
gh2k on HNFor me, there is 5 second+ delay and the video ends abruptly.
android521 on HN
Sign-up or email required before trying the demo
From 2 comments
Feedback: if I hadn't seen this posted here, I'd assume this website is malicious. Asking me for my email, microphone, and camera before you've even showed me anything is a deal…
notfed on HNHave to enter my email, no thanks.
theogravity on HN
Creepy experience
From 2 comments
Felt like talking to a person, I couldn't bring myself to treat it like a piece of code, that's how real it felt. I wanted to be polite and diplomatic, caught myself thinking…
karolist on HN11/10 creepiness, but well done. The hardest part of this for me was to hang up lol. Felt weird just closing the tab haha.
beAbU on HN
Requests
Support typing input instead of only speech
From 1 comment
Ah, I wish I could type to this thing
ratedgene on HN
Clearer API pricing with on-demand option
From 2 comments
This is cool but if you're trying to cater to devs you need to have a simple on demand API model and no subscription. We need to be able to evaluate the cost on our side.
bilater on HNThis is so amazing. What's the base rate for streaming with the API? Can you add that to the Pricing page please?
ilaksh on HN
Better name pronunciation
From 2 comments
This is funny my name is Simone, pronounced 'see-moh-nay' (Italian male), but both bots kept pronouncing it wrong, either like Simon or the English female version of Simone…
syx on HNPretty cool, except Digital Hasaan has lots of trouble with my correcting the pronounciation of my name and looks and sounds like he is trying to seduce me.
dools on HN
Questions
How is GPU resource handling done at scale
From 1 comment
As someone not super familiar with deployment but enough to know that GPUs are difficult to work with due to being costly and sometimes hard to allocate: apart from optimizing…
radarsat1 on HN
Will speech-to-speech models be used
From 1 comment
Are you looking into speech to speech (no text) models?
e12e on HN
Alternatives named
Simli
From 1 comment
have you checked https://www.simli.com ? its latency is <300ms
chaosprint on HN