Are people using AI voice chat more in their daily lives?

We’re trying to figure out the best form factor for an AI friend who's a market wizard. Leaning heavily into voice now. Voice is really expensive to run (esp for free products), but building your own pipeline can get the cost down 10x from a e2e hosted solution on xAI or OpenAI, and give you more flexibility for tooling etc.

Here’s some of what’s been working for us:

- Since increasing the expressiveness of our voice model's output, we’ve seen double-digit percentage growth in next-day retention among users who have had a call experience.

- Knowing the assistant is hearing you clearly is a key part of perceived speed. Using Apple’s local live voice capture to render words as you speak has significantly improved perceived speed, even though actual reply times haven't changed.

- Our onboarding has reached an 88% notification opt-in rate by reframing the question from whether users want notifications to how often they’d like to be notified. As a new app on someone’s phone, you need to repeatedly show value to become part of their financial routine.

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