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New comment by kermitime in "Tin Can, a 'landline' for kids"

kermitime — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 03:15:38 +0000

also X, also using generic vm, but thinking of switching to recording of fax machine max volume

New comment by kermitime in "Nvidia PersonaPlex 7B on Apple Silicon: Full-Duplex Speech-to-Speech in Swift"

kermitime — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 10:56:20 +0000

the parakeet TDT models that are coreml optimized by fluid audio are hands down the fastest local models i’ve tried— worth checking out!

(unloading to the NPU is where the edge is)

https://huggingface.co/FluidInference/parakeet-tdt-0.6b-v2-c...

https://github.com/FluidInference/FluidAudio

The devs are responsive and active and nice on their discord too. You’ll find discussions on all the latest whizbangs with VAD, TTS, EOU etc

New comment by kermitime in "Ask HN: Video conferencing that works with group singing?"

kermitime — Wed, 18 Mar 2020 23:46:50 +0000

I'll see what happens when we go video over the internet and audio over phones. Thanks!

New comment by kermitime in "Ask HN: Video conferencing that works with group singing?"

kermitime — Wed, 18 Mar 2020 00:19:43 +0000

Oh right, this is the new appear.in. I remember really liking how easy it is to join rooms. Going to give this another look. Thank you!

New comment by kermitime in "Ask HN: Video conferencing that works with group singing?"

kermitime — Wed, 18 Mar 2020 00:18:22 +0000

Fascinating. This feels compatible with our setup -- where the group leaders are in the same physical location with one mic and the participants are all remote. I'm going to test this idea out soon. Thank you!

New comment by kermitime in "Ask HN: Video conferencing that works with group singing?"

kermitime — Wed, 18 Mar 2020 00:16:32 +0000

This looks really cool. I have a feeling that most of our participants won't be able to set up ethernet-based connections and use special hardware. Worth more investigation on my end before I assume too much. Thank you!

New comment by kermitime in "Ask HN: Video conferencing that works with group singing?"

kermitime — Wed, 18 Mar 2020 00:12:40 +0000

I'll give Mumble a try. Thank you!

New comment by kermitime in "Ask HN: Video conferencing that works with group singing?"

kermitime — Wed, 18 Mar 2020 00:10:57 +0000

Discord will be what I use in my next attempt with a test group. And I don't know if it will work but I'll try it along with the other suggestions (slower, longer tone music and perhaps some lead singers turned up more). Thanks!

New comment by kermitime in "Ask HN: Video conferencing that works with group singing?"

kermitime — Wed, 18 Mar 2020 00:09:30 +0000

Wow this is an interesting comment. I hadn't considered changing the music in this way. I'll give it a try. Thank you!

New comment by kermitime in "Ask HN: Video conferencing that works with group singing?"

kermitime — Wed, 18 Mar 2020 00:08:13 +0000

I'm not familiar with any of these but I'm going to check them out. Thank you!

New comment by kermitime in "Ask HN: Video conferencing that works with group singing?"

kermitime — Wed, 18 Mar 2020 00:07:39 +0000

Thanks for the pro-level reference. I'll keep this in mind in case we ever get into recording. For now we're just trying to get non-singers/total beginners to sing together without fear of embarrassment.

Ask HN: Video conferencing that works with group singing?

kermitime — Mon, 16 Mar 2020 23:46:52 +0000

Hello. Could you recommend any video conferencing services that would work with group singing?

I work with two organizations that use video conferencing apps for online classes. During these online classes, the participants sing together (10-20 people). The problem we're having is that the voices are out of sync. I assume this is because of the different latency participants have with the server.

We have tried zoom.us, webex, hangouts, skype-- same problem across all apps (out of sync singing).

I don't know enough about video conferencing technology to know what to look for in terms of features. Perhaps a service that lets me adjust the latency of each participant manually? Or a service that dynamically adjusts for latency in a way that makes in-sync group singing possible?

Any help the HN community could provide is much appreciated!

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