Mati Staniszewski and his team at @ElevenLabs have built amazing text-to-speech and speech-to-text models, and are now expanding into voice agents. In this episode of Cheeky Pint, I asked why one of the longest-promised UIs in computing ("Open the pod bay doors, HAL" was 1968!) has been so slow in arriving. Along with lots of details on how voice AI actually works at a technical level.00:00:27 How audio models work00:08:52 ElevenLabs business model00:17:50 The conversational Turing Test00:21:01