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by drusepth 20 days ago
I reaaaaaally hope we have an option to disable those random ums and ahhs that interrupt for no reason. :|
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I was surprised all that made it into the demo video. Did not seem cool. Is that "active listening" or something?
Its actually useful, when you are launching into a long monologue and want periodic acknowledgement that its "listening".
I have now had a chance to use it, and it never interrupted me. Weird call for the video to include that. Works very well, and can even mash up languages.
I think it would make me stop speaking. I guess it might take me some time to get used to it.
I think it just doesn't know when it's its turn to speak, and cancels itself out when it hears humans.