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Member of Technical Staff @BoardyAI | Prev. Founding Engineer @ Bluejay (YC X25) & AI @Fidelity | Voice AI, LLMs, Finance

Toronto, Ontario
Joined February 2022
Last month, we had 30,000+ hours of conversation. Yes, 30 thousand. I’m the only engineer working on voice ai at @boardyai and here's what I'm noticing across the industry. In the race for faster responses and more natural voices, I think we’re losing sight of what makes a conversation actually valuable. Helping someone understand. Sometimes that takes more than words. It takes something you can see, point at, question, and explore together. That’s where I see conversational ai heading, and where I’m taking voice at Boardy.
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I do think that voice ai pipelines still route almost everything through full ASR to generative decoding. A lot of latency and cost sits in that text-output step so reformulating the problem as constrained classification (audio to action) instead of open generation is def going to be the new paradigm shift
Say hello to Thud: the first Audio Action Model. It listens, chooses an action, and executes it in 200ms. 10× faster and 20× cheaper than Gemini Live. Open an app. Navigate a menu. Send a message. Just say it. Watch me navigate my Mira smart glasses, just by talking to Thud.
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cool! we built something similar but using 3d models with poly-mesh expansions to learn about specific parts of any model a while back. any model turned into an interactive learning exp try it out with some preloaded models: mesh3d.vercel.app/ cc: @kushpatell_
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it took a waterloo cs student to find this one line that everyone else missed lol
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i’m afraid to say waterloo is not only taking over engineering but sparkling water in sf as well
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been a month since I moved to sf to work for a @ycombinator company pushing the most code and learning at an insane rate
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New portfolio is live, devp.ca
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im taking down prod, goodnight
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Replying to @steveruizok
This is amazing lol, the m5 sticks are so versatile. here’s something i built recently where we reverse engineered the accelerometer to control 3D objects (sort of Jarvis from iron man)
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