Show HN: Talk to Santa x ElevenLabs – A Santa you can talk to (opens in new tab)

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2 pointslouisjoejordan1y ago8 comments

I put together a small project that lets you talk to an AI Santa Claus at https://talktosanta.io. The voice is generated using ElevenLabs (based on a trained voice actor), and there’s no login required. For each conversation started, ElevenLabs will donate $2 to charity (capped at $11,000).

Just a holiday experiment. Feedback is welcome.

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o_____________o1y ago

Fun!

The 11labs agent product is promising but very buggy, I was glad to see some of those issues in your implementation as well. The agent often drops out and comes back randomly after long stretches of silence. They also seem to be running some kind of half-functional censor on the llm output when used with Gemini 1.5. It also bills 500 credits for any time < 1 minute, not the aggregate use.

louisjoejordanOP1y ago

Thanks for the feedback - What do you mean by the censor? As in safety moderation? For this specific agent I had to prompt it very carefully to makes sure people wouldn't ask Santa for anything dangerous :)

Billing component is noted, round-up doesn't seem fair. Let me check this.

o_____________o1y ago

Thanks. Censor – it's hard to say what's happening because it's not even carried through in the transcription, but the agent will say one word at the start of a natural sentence and then stop talking. Seems to only happen with Gemini.

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louisjoejordanOP1y ago

The code is open-source: https://github.com/elevenlabs/elevenlabs-examples/tree/main/...

badalyan1y ago

This is cool! Do you know to add the Santa voice to a newly created Agent? It's not showing up on the ElevenLabs UI. Can't get the proper santa AGENT_ID working.

louisjoejordanOP1y ago

Thanks! We created a custom professional voice clone for this purpose using a voice actor. Let me check with Santa to see if we have permission to make his voice public :)

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Show HN: Talk to Santa x ElevenLabs – A Santa you can talk to (opens in new tab)

(talktosanta.io)

2 pointslouisjoejordan1y ago8 comments

Just a holiday experiment. Feedback is welcome.

8 comments

o_____________o1y ago

Fun!

louisjoejordanOP1y ago

Billing component is noted, round-up doesn't seem fair. Let me check this.

o_____________o1y ago

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louisjoejordanOP1y ago

The code is open-source: https://github.com/elevenlabs/elevenlabs-examples/tree/main/...

badalyan1y ago

This is cool! Do you know to add the Santa voice to a newly created Agent? It's not showing up on the ElevenLabs UI. Can't get the proper santa AGENT_ID working.

louisjoejordanOP1y ago

Thanks! We created a custom professional voice clone for this purpose using a voice actor. Let me check with Santa to see if we have permission to make his voice public :)

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