Hey HN,<p>Sean Linehan and Nick deWilde here. I'm really excited to share the new product my co-founder and I have been working on. It's called "Roleplays" and it let's you have voice-based conversations with AI characters.<p>There are two critical components that make it impactful:<p>1. The actual live roleplaying. It's surprisingly intense!
2. You get super detailed feedback on your performance.<p>The tech stack here is pretty interesting. We're using different models for transcription, token generation, voice generation, and transcript evaluation. There are a lot of moving pieces to make this work seamlessly!<p>As broader point, I think voice is going to wind up being a critical evolution in computing. I recently read "Rise of the Machines: A Cybernetic History" which traces the early origins of computing. It's fascinating that the early pioneers _also_ thought voice would be important due to the low-bandwidth nature of using other control systems. Perhaps they were right, but it took 50 years to get there.<p>Anyways, I'm excited to share this with HN and would love your feedback on the experience!
Who is this for? From my understanding it's focused on management level conversations. As a software engineer I wouldn't use this for interview practice right?<p>Do you build personas with different types of personalities? Grumpy manager on Monday morning, intern who is still getting up to speed, etc.<p>An example transcript and results/demo would be nice.