​One build day. Your next big idea, out loud. 🎙️

​🎧 Build something worth hearing.

​Boson AI and U of T's Master of Science in Applied Computing (MScAC) program are teaming up again for the Higgs Audio Hackathon, the weekend before reading week.

​Friday, we kick off. Saturday, we build, demo, and celebrate. You bring the idea (and a laptop). We bring the tools, the mentors, and the snacks.

​New to voice AI? No problem. If you're curious and like building things, you'll fit right in.

​🛠️ What you'll build with

​Get hands-on with Boson AI's Higgs models:

• ​🎧 Higgs Realtime: live voice, interruptions, and tool calling

• ​🧑‍🎤 Higgs Avatar: animate a still image with speech

• ​🗣️ Higgs TTS: make every word expressive

​💡 Not sure what to build? Try one of these:

• ​Cross language barriers. Build a tutor or guide that follows users as they switch languages, even mid-sentence.

• ​Make conversation feel natural. Play with tone, pacing, and turn-taking. Let users interrupt or change their minds, then recover gracefully.

• ​Build agents that act. Use tool calling to look something up or complete a task, and show the result in your demo.

• ​Give speech a face. Pair expressive, multilingual speech with Higgs Avatar for lip-sync and facial expressions that follow the voice.

​🚀 Get a head start

​Participant API access opens October 16, one week before kickoff. Start with the Realtime tutorial (voice + tool calling) or the Avatar quickstart (talking video from an image and speech), so you arrive ready to build.

​⏱️ The weekend

​📅 Friday, October 23

• ​6:00 PM: Opening ceremony, kickoff talks, tutorials on model serving and building with Higgs Realtime and Avatar

• ​Networking, meet the Boson AI team, find your teammates, and start hacking

​📅 Saturday, October 24

• ​Continue hacking until 3:00 PM

• ​3:00 PM: Presentations begin

• ​Final rounds and judging wrap up around 6-7 PM

• ​6:30 PM onward: Pub night and winners announced 🍻

​Timings are tentative. Final schedule and venue details will be shared with registered participants.

​👉🏼 Why join?

• ​Ship a real demo in about 24 hours

• ​Work with the Boson AI team and meet fellow MScAC builders

• ​Try something new without a semester's worth of pressure

• ​Last year, 200+ builders created 50+ projects, and several hackathon participants have since joined Boson AI as interns and full-time team members. 👀

​🙋🏻‍♀️ Who it's for

​MScAC students at the University of Toronto. Solo? Come anyway, since Friday night is made for finding a team.

​🧑🏻‍💻 What to bring

• ​Your laptop and charger

• ​Your API key (available Oct 16)

• ​An idea, or just an open mind

​📍 Location: To be shared with accepted participants.
🎟️ Registration: Closes on 22nd October
❓ Questions? Email us at hackathon@boson.ai