Show HN: Sparrow-2 – Noise cancellation isn't designed for conversational AIhttps://sparrow2.tavuslabs.org
Hey there, I’m Brian. I've been shipping conversational models at Tavus for the past two years. I want to tell you about our latest audio-understanding/turn-taking model: Sparrow-2! It’s a new category of model and a unique new approach to conversational flow understanding. Earlier this year we launched Sparrow-1, (at the time) our SoTA turn-taking model. Since our Sparrow-1 launch, I’ve spent a lot of time listening to humans talking and trying to really understand how people know when to talk, when to listen, and when to wait. I’ve also been hunting down failure modes of the current…