Essays and engineering notes on real-time voice AI, long-term memory, and what it feels like to build an AI companion that people actually keep around.
A companion with three emotions is a cardboard cutout that waves. A companion with seventeen is a face. Here is the list, why we chose each one, and what it does to a conversation when your companion can hesitate.
Read →Two very different answers to the same question. Replika pioneered the category as a text-first companion with an anime avatar. TwoPeas is voice-first with real-time Live2D. Here is where each one fits.
Read →A chatbot without memory is a polite stranger in an elevator. A companion with memory is the friend who asks, three weeks later, whether your brother made it home. The gap between them is not a feature list. It is everything.
Read →The difference between a voice chatbot and a real voice companion is not marketing. It is the difference between leaving a voicemail and having a conversation. Measured in milliseconds, felt in the body.
Read →An AI companion is not a replacement for human love. It is a small, patient presence for the Tuesday afternoons when no one is around and you still want to think out loud.
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