Akshay Ramaswamy (@TheRealAk914)

2026.09.10 17:34

Been hard to keep this one a secret! For the past couple of months, @elise_ai has been working with @OpenAIDevs as an early design partner for GPT‑Live-1. I still remember my excitement back in 2024 when the first S2S models came out, but it took a long time to get to production - now it feels like we’re finally there. There are lots of really interesting improvements to using GPT-Live-1 – some less obvious than others:

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Akshay Ramaswamy@TheRealAk914

2026.08.27 17:13

We’ve been testing @cartesia's new Sonic 3.6 model at @elise_ai and the early results are incredible!! Renters are rating it higher on voice naturalness than any other TTS model we've tested. At our scale this makes a big difference - better voice quality means people stay engaged longer, giving our voice agent a chance to resolve their request. Excited to keep pushing on this with the Cartesia team, we'll be publishing more results soon!