Talking ComputersYC W26 landing page report.
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Talking Computershttps://talkingcomputers.ai/

Your landing page’s weakest score is Trust.

How Talking Computers ranks

  1. 1.Rime73
  2. 2.Ultravox72
  3. 3.Cartesia69
  4. 4.Hume AI68
  5. 5.Kyutai57
  6. 6.Talking Computers44
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44Growth scoreupdated

category scores

Trust30CTA32Value props48Mobile web52Information hierarchy58
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Trust30CTA32Value props48Mobile web52Information hierarchy58

Score over time

90807060504030Cartesia 64 on Jun 3 (Wayback)Cartesia 64 on Jun 12 (Wayback)Cartesia 68 on Jul 27 (Wayback)Cartesia 66 on Aug 21 (Wayback)Cartesia 66 on Sep 4 (Wayback)Cartesia 69 on Sep 20 (Live)Kyutai 53 on May 28 (Wayback)Kyutai 55 on Jun 16 (Wayback)Kyutai 52 on Jun 29 (Wayback)Kyutai 52 on Jul 11 (Wayback)Kyutai 52 on Jul 21 (Wayback)Kyutai 54 on Aug 25 (Wayback)Kyutai 57 on Sep 22 (Live)Rime 74 on Apr 15 (Wayback)Rime 71 on May 9 (Wayback)Rime 71 on May 19 (Wayback)Rime 69 on Jun 12 (Wayback)Rime 77 on Jun 22 (Wayback)Rime 79 on Jun 30 (Wayback)Rime 73 on Sep 20 (Live)Hume AI 71 on Feb 11 (Wayback)Hume AI 70 on Apr 7 (Wayback)Hume AI 68 on May 30 (Wayback)Hume AI 68 on Jul 28 (Live)Ultravox 71 on Apr 17 (Wayback)Ultravox 74 on May 22 (Wayback)Ultravox 70 on Jun 26 (Wayback)Ultravox 72 on Jul 11 (Wayback)Ultravox 73 on Jul 27 (Wayback)Ultravox 72 on Sep 23 (Live)Talking Computers 44 on Sep 23 (Live)Sep 23

Trust

30Poor

Proof that the product is real, competent, and safe to try.

Rime
Kyutai
Cartesia
Hume AI
Ultravox
Trust read
Talking ComputersNo visible trust signal identified.
CartesiaInteractive "Talk to Skylar" voice demo carousel
KyutaiThree named live demos — "MIRA," "Moshi," and "Unmute" — with concrete descriptions like "Real-time voice AI with natura
RimeCustomer logo strip including Mayo Clinic, LiveKit, Daily, and Dialpad below the hero CTAs
Hume AI"Our decades of research in multimodal emotional intelligence span" with stat counters 50+ / 48+ / 600+
Ultravox"Join thousands of teams building natural, conversational voice AI experiences"

CTA

32Poor

Copy, size, verb, cost-feel — does the primary CTA earn the click?

Rime
Ultravox
Cartesia
Hume AI

Problems

  • no button or input anywhere
  • only CTA is a mailto text link
  • mailto link below mobile fold
  • email click feels costly

Value props

48Poor

Title, subtitle, hero — do they sell the product's true value?

Talking Computers’s headline vagueTALKING COMPUTERSMaking AI symbiotic with humanity

Working

  • Body copy names concrete product: voice agent models
  • Mission framing signals ambition
  • Latency metric (time to first audio token) mentioned

Could improve

  • Headline is just the brand name
  • True value buried in paragraph five
  • Hero image decorates, shows nothing of product

Mobile web

52Fair

The phone experience as a first-class citizen.

Mobile web annotations on the mobile capture1
  1. Long essay paragraphs — Manifesto-length body copy stacks four dense paragraphs before any action, burying the value statement in prose.

Information hierarchy

58Fair

Does the design help or inhibit what the page is trying to say?

Information hierarchy annotations on the desktop capture123
  1. Buried email link — The only action on the page is a plain text mailto at the bottom of a paragraph column — no button styling, outside the scan path.
  2. Two-column text wall — Five same-weight paragraphs of manifesto prose force linear reading with no subheads or visual beats to scan.
  3. Headline undersized — "Making AI symbiotic with humanity" is rendered at body-adjacent size, weaker than the wordmark and easy to skip past the illustration.

Competitors

inferred from product, audience, and value prop
#1Rimerime.ai73 #2Ultravoxultravox.ai72 #3Cartesiacartesia.ai69 #4Hume AIhume.ai68 #5Kyutaikyutai.org57
#6Talking Computers44