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The TWIML AI Podcast
From Voice Agents to AI Avatars with Alexander Smola
Artificial Intelligence, Computer Science, Computer Vision and podcast with Alex Smola
The TWIML AI Podcast, Hosted by Sam Charrington
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Alex Smola discusses the development of voice agents, audiovisual systems and AI avatars. Topics include audio tokenization, inference cost, conversational latency, visual context and how artificial systems might learn from interaction while responding appropriately to human emotion.
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