Meet random people from your organization for a coffee with macarons or for a quick video call. Β Get to know your colleagues better and maybe even make new (work) friends.
π§ Quick and Easy
Just add the Macarons app to a Slack channel and it will automatically pair off random members for (virtual) coffees.
π° Control the Odds
For each channel you can control how often and when chat lotteries happen, as well as how many people should be matched together.
π§ Ice Breakers
Let Macarons get conversations started with predefined ice breakers or set your own custom topics for each round.
π Take a skip day
Independent of a channels meeting interval, each user can always individually pause their participation or decide to only take part every other time.
Based on our record, Google Duplex should be more popular than Macarons. It has been mentiond 3 times since March 2021. We are tracking product recommendations and mentions on various public social media platforms and blogs. They can help you identify which product is more popular and what people think of it.
Sounding like AI and being able to actually hold a conversation while in character are two different things though. Some really fancy ones are getting really close. Source: over 1 year ago
For example: https://ai.googleblog.com/2018/05/duplex-ai-system-for-natural-conversation.html. Source: almost 3 years ago
I'm working on a game that has an AI narrator talking to the player. I messed around with some filters in Audacity that I don't know how to use until I realized I don't want a stereotypical computer voice, what I'm actually looking for is similar to Google's creepy Duplex system that automates calling restaurants for reservations. Source: about 3 years ago
It took us a few months (I think it was 4) but now we released Macarons. After adding Macarons to the workspace you have to invite it to a channel and then can configure how often people of that channel are matched. Additionally you can specify how big the match groups should be and everyone participating can adjust their participation rate. That's basically it. Since Macarons is not over-boarded with features we... Source: about 2 years ago
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