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Show HN: Let's Play (Voice AI) Ball – A Baseball Strategy Game (canonical.chat)
2 points by tmshapland 6 months ago | hide | past | favorite | 2 comments
My 8 year old son is obsessed with baseball. It’s unfortunate because 1) I deeply love lacrosse (I was the leading scorer my sophomore year for UC Davis! Never miss an opportunity to say it!), 2) I don’t know much about baseball, and 3) he’s a diehard Yankees fan.

Although I can’t do anything about his team affiliation or the current 3-0 Yankees deficit in the 2024 World Series, I can do something about teaching him baseball strategy -- despite knowing little about baseball myself. I built this Voice AI game for him to learn more about baseball strategy. In the game, the Voice AI describes a baseball scenario, and the caller has to describe what the defensive player should do. To try it out, call (530) 203-8359.

While my son is obsessed with baseball, I’m equally obsessed with Voice AI. Voice AI is eating the world. We’re seeing Voice AI consume pre-existing call volume (e.g., lead qualification calls, customer surveys, medical appointment setting) and creating a deluge of new call volume enabled by the Voice AI medium (e.g., role playing for professional development (https://solidroad.com/), an AI that introduces you to people with similar interests (https://www.boardy.ai/), and, yes, voice-first baseball games to make you feel like a better dad).

If you’re building in Voice AI and are as enthralled with Voice AI as me, check out what we’re building (https://voice.canonical.chat) when we’re not building fun voice-enabled AI applications. We love meeting other people in Voice AI and helping them improve their Voice AI agents!

Tom https://x.com/tom_shapland




This post mentions "Voice AI" ten times, but doesn't once explain what that's referring to. A quick web search leads me to https://voice.ai as the first result. Is that what you're talking about?

I wonder if spending so much time talking to AI is going to have a negative impact on people's ability to communicate with other people?


Ah, oops. I meant Voice AI agents. That is, LLMs that people can talk to with their voice. Let me edit the post so that's clearer. Thanks for the feedback!




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