Ekiga
Ekiga (formerly known as GnomeMeeting) is an open source SoftPhone, Video Conferencing and Instant Messenger application over the Internet. It supports HD sound quality and video up to DVD size and quality. Because it uses both of the major telephony standards (SIP and H.323), it is interoperable with many service providers and many types of hardware and software. Ekiga was first released back in 2001 under the GnomeMeeting name, as a graduation thesis. In 2001, voice over IP, IP Telephony, and videoconferencing were not widespread technologies as they are now. The GNU/Linux desktop was at its infancy, and let's not speak about multimedia capabilities. Most webcam drivers were buggy, ALSA had not been released yet and full-duplex audio was something difficult to achieve. General performance could also be an issue, especially when most efficient codecs were closed source. Generally speaking, the technology was not ready yet but Ekiga was already kicking!
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GPT-Live-1 mini
GPT-Live-1 mini is one of the two GPT-Live voice models rolling out to ChatGPT users globally, designed to bring more natural, intelligent, and responsive voice interaction to everyday conversations. Built with the same full-duplex approach as GPT-Live, it can listen and speak at the same time instead of waiting for rigid turn-by-turn exchanges. The model continuously processes input while generating output, allowing it to decide many times per second whether to speak, keep listening, pause, interrupt, or invoke a tool. This makes conversations feel faster, smoother, and more natural, with active listening, quick back-and-forth, better timing, and fewer awkward interruptions when the user pauses to think. GPT-Live-1 mini also benefits from the new ChatGPT Voice experience, where users can interrupt with a question, ask ChatGPT to slow down, or tell it to stay quiet and listen.
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Amazon Nova Sonic
Amazon Nova Sonic is a state-of-the-art speech-to-speech model that delivers real-time, human-like voice conversations with industry-leading price performance. It unifies speech understanding and generation into a single model, enabling developers to create natural, expressive conversational AI experiences with low latency. Nova Sonic adapts its responses based on the prosody of input speech, such as pace and timbre, resulting in more natural dialogue. It supports function calling and agentic workflows to interact with external services and APIs, including knowledge grounding with enterprise data using Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG). It provides robust speech understanding for American and British English across various speaking styles and acoustic conditions, with additional languages coming soon. Nova Sonic handles user interruptions gracefully without dropping conversational context and is robust to background noise.
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GPT-Live
GPT-Live is a new generation of voice models for natural human-AI interaction, now powering ChatGPT Voice. It is built to make talking with AI feel much more like having a real conversation through a full-duplex architecture, meaning it can listen and speak at the same time. During conversations, GPT-Live can show it is paying attention with short acknowledgments like “mhmm” or “yeah,” engage in quick back-and-forth, or stay quiet when the user needs a moment to think. Instead of processing separate turns one after another, GPT-Live continuously processes input while generating output, allowing it to decide many times per second whether to speak, keep listening, pause, interrupt, or invoke a tool. For questions that require web search, deeper reasoning, or more complex work, GPT-Live can delegate to a frontier model behind the scenes and bring the result back into the conversation when it is ready, while still maintaining the flow of the voice interaction.
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