{"id":88334,"title":"Dollyglot: Befriend Anybody","tagline":"Dollyglot is like Character.ai but with real-time video avatars.","body":"[Dollyglot](https://www.dollyglot.com/) is like Character.ai but with real-time video avatars.\n\nTurn a photo and a voice into a real friend. Speak with Harry Potter about Hogwarts, or brainstorm ideas with The Rock!\n\n[**Our Product Video**](https://youtu.be/GhuqAMSq6HY)\n\n**Our Team:** **We’ve lived and worked together for two years**\n\n**Thomas**: Ex-quant at Société Générale. Master’s in Applied Mathematics and Business (HEC Paris, University of Paris 7).\n\n**Paul-Henri**: Built the Yumi Dialogue Engine, an AI for creator “clones” that scaled to 1 000 paying users. Dropped out of CentraleSupélec (Computer Science) to launch Dollyglot.\n\n**Together, we built Parler-TTS Mini Multilingual**, the world’s first and only fully open-source multilingual text-to-speech model. In the last month alone, it has garnered over 5,000 downloads and inspired many fine-tuning projects.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post\u0026id=88334\u0026key=user_uploads/89898/49894db9-ac0d-45da-bb91-4944831f8a38)\n\n**Our Vision**\\\nWithin five years, every Gen Alpha will have an AI best friend. By nature, AI is empathetic and nonjudgmental, creating a safe space where everyone can truly be themselves.\n\n**What We’ve Built**\n\nDollyglot developed the world’s first and only photo-to-real-time video avatar model. Paired with reasoning models like DeepSeek R1 or Grok, we bring your AI friends to life and make 'non-lobotomized' characters.\n\n **What’s Next**\n\nJoin our waitlist to try Dollyglot in the coming weeks.\n\nQuestions? Contact Thomas (CEO) at [thomas.minassian@dollyglot.com](mailto:thomas.minassian@dollyglot.com) or Paul-Henri (CTO) at [paul-henri.biojout@dollyglot.com](mailto:paul-henri.biojout@dollyglot.com).","slug":"Myk-dollyglot-befriend-anybody","created_at":"2025-03-07T01:37:29.930Z","updated_at":"2026-05-24T00:31:54.083Z","total_vote_count":18,"url":"https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/Myk-dollyglot-befriend-anybody","share_image_url":"https://www.ycombinator.com/media/?type=post\u0026id=88334\u0026key=user_uploads/89898/49894db9-ac0d-45da-bb91-4944831f8a38","company":{"id":30198,"name":"Dollyglot","slug":"dollyglot","url":"https://www.dollyglot.com/","logo":"https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/897f8bc5186131522d7f3d3073cf9181df4bae7b.png","batch":"Winter 2025","industry":"Consumer","tags":["Generative AI","Consumer","Social","Conversational AI"],"search_path":"https://bookface.ycombinator.com/company/30198"}}