John Robinson

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Inspired by @_MarcosValera's list of voice AI people worth following, here are a few builders behind the projects we've covered this week.

>> @RealRichomie is part of the AveraLabs team behind Awaken, which adapts half-duplex speech models for full-duplex conversation.
>> @rissa_cao co-founded Fish Audio, whose Live 3 knows to keep going after a “yeah” and stop for a “wait.”
>> @sharathkrml zones out while reading, so he built Read Along, a Mac app whose cursor follows your voice—even across a handwritten page.
>> @anders_thuesen spent a year building Duo with his team, a full-duplex speech model with a preview they say runs on a laptop.
>> @hubeiqiao spent eight months taking Joe Speaking, his IELTS and CELPIP speaking coach, from alpha to 1.0 as a solo builder.
>> @iam_nish7 is one of three builders behind Higgs & Hrrm, giving Minecraft villagers voices, memories and gossip.
>> @BKJinAI founded Adventists AI, the team behind Sophon-Realtime, a full-duplex voice model that can laugh and sigh.
>> @_devp builds voice AI at Boardy and explores what an AI should show you while you talk.
>> @yiz_be_building leads Besimple, whose voice benchmarks test whether models catch the details a task depends on.
>> @rishflips built Twring so the coding agent you already run can ring your phone when it needs you.
>> @johnrobinsn built MacVoice, which runs the speech pipeline locally and uses Apple's echo cancellation so you can interrupt it on laptop speakers.

Keep exploring—your next experiment might start with something someone here is building.

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