alt.hn

3/16/2026 at 2:41:17 PM

Show HN: Hecate – Call an AI from Signal

by rhodey

3/17/2026 at 8:01:38 AM

Interesting approach using Signal for the transport layer. I've been working with real-time audio pipelines (chrome.tabCapture → Whisper) and the latency tradeoff between STT chunk size and accuracy is always tricky. What's the end-to-end latency like on a video call?

by swq115

3/16/2026 at 11:42:20 PM

Title being updated from its current form to add that this is specifically voice and video would make it quite a bit more interesting. Using text to invoke an AI from Signal is not really interesting at all, that’s basically OpenClaw. Using voice and video to do so, however, is quite a bit more interesting

by SOLAR_FIELDS

3/17/2026 at 12:15:02 AM

Hi! thanks for the feedback!

I think you are right. I thought "Call" would clearly get the idea of voice across at least, but it can be confused with function call, or simply to invoke.

I dont have the ability to change the title but if someone else wants to:

"Video and Voice Call an AI from Signal"

Else maybe I will submit it again in a few days.

Thanks

by rhodey

3/17/2026 at 5:35:49 AM

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by anvevoice

3/17/2026 at 2:06:10 PM

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by KachiluAI