It all started as a joke. I was in a group chat with a few of my friends and we were talking about football (soccer for the American readers). I entered the chat during a mildly heated discussion about the manager of a team one of my friends supports. It was going on for a bit while with seemingly no end in sight when it occurred to me that I could just as well clone my friends’ voices and pit them against each other by backing them with LLMs, and I’d probably not see much difference in the conversation.

Denis Bolkovskis

Mental Health

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The post describes the journey of building conversational bots with voices using Go and Rust. The author shares their inspiration for the project, discusses the design implementation details, and provides code snippets for both the Go and Rust implementations.

Go or Rust? Just Listen to the Bots

<p>the rust text to speech sounded incredibly bad and choppy but the text generation looks like it worked well</p>
