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New comment by mahimai in "Voice-AI-for-Beginners – A curated learning path for developers"

mahimai — Sat, 02 May 2026 22:03:15 +0000

I built this because Voice AI is moving fast and I couldn't find a single place that walks a developer from "what is a voice agent" through to production telephony, evals, and the FCC/EU AI Act stuff you actually need to know before shipping.

Every citations are verified and active, tagged Beginner/Intermediate/ Advanced, and grouped so you can read it top-to-bottom:

foundations →

pick a framework (LiveKit or Pipecat) →

swap in STT/TTS/LLM components →

add WebRTC or SIP →

evals and production. →

What's intentionally not in there: - Vendor-locked tutorials presented as neutral guides (flagged where authors have commercial interests) - Anything that hasn't been updated in the last 12 months

Sections I'd most welcome feedback on: the open-source TTS picks (this moves weekly), the evaluation tooling (newest category), and whether the suggested 5-week learning path is realistic.

PRs and harsh critique both welcome.

Voice-AI-for-Beginners – A curated learning path for developers

mahimai — Sat, 02 May 2026 22:03:15 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/mahimairaja/voiceai

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47991018

Points: 77

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Show HN: Envoic – Find and clean up scattered Python virtual environments

mahimai — Mon, 09 Feb 2026 18:47:30 +0000

I work across a lot of Python projects and kept losing track of virtual environments — old `.venv` directories sitting in project folders, eating disk. There's no built-in way to answer "where are all my venvs and how much space are they using?"

envoic scans your filesystem, detects Python environments using ground-truth signals (pyvenv.cfg, bin/python, conda-meta), and presents a utilitarian report.

    uvx envoic scan ~/projects

The interactive `manage` command lets you select environments to delete with a checkbox UI.

Design choices:

- Two dependencies (typer + questionary). Dataclasses instead of Pydantic to keep the install under 3MB — important since `uvx` downloads on every invocation.

- Detection doesn't rely on directory names alone. It checks for `pyvenv.cfg` (the definitive marker), Python binaries, activation scripts, and conda metadata.

- Deletion requires typing "delete", not y/n. Symlinks are unlinked without following. Paths outside the scan root are rejected.

- Output style is inspired by USGC's TR-100 Machine Report [1] — monospaced, box-drawn, no colors. Information density over decoration.

[1] https://github.com/usgraphics/usgc-machine-report

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46949167

Points: 3

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