CueLight – open-source <2mb/0.5M param always listening turn detector
A potentially AI-related product surfaced from a public Show HN launch post.
Launch summary
Before I get into the details, I'd just like to say I was able to build this thanks to the work done by the people who work on Pipecat & SmartTurn as this relied on their data. SmartTurn is a fantastic open source model for turn detection. I needed a much smaller version that could fit anywhere and be always on (always actually being every 20ms in this case), so I figured I could do a trade off of making it support one language only (English), not rely on building on top of a Whisper model and possibly squeeze out similar performance. While I do still wish to improve this model significantly, this is my progress in doing so thus far. I also augmented the data with synthetic noise and reverb to try to improve its scores in handling those situations. I'd love for people to try it, and even better, provide suggestions or audio that can help me improve it. The link takes you to a sample of it running in the browser. There's also an SSM version but that was purely for experimental purposes.
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