Low-Latency Club Podcast Episode 1: Why Your Voice Assistant Sounds Boring (and How Rime is Fixing it)

Lily Clifford, CEO of Rime, joins us to talk about why most voice AI sounds like it’s stuck in a customer service script—and what it takes to build voices people actually want to talk to. We get into linguistics, hybrid accents, Domino’s call data, and why “Flugerville” is a pronunciation nightmare. Plus, Lily shares her vision for speech-to-speech AI that backchannels like a human and learns like one too.