Resonance: Rethink How You Build & Interact with AI | Mentor Me Collective
Artificial Intelligence is rapidly changing how we work, learn, build, and access information. But while AI systems are becoming more intelligent, the way we interact with them hasn’t evolved nearly as quickly.
In this edition of Workshop Wednesdays by Mentor Me Collective, Chanel Power explores the relationship between AI, human attention, and interaction design through Resonance, an open-source, voice-native AI companion built to reduce the context switching that happens when developers need information while they work.
Using local Whisper, NVIDIA NIM + Nemotron, and ElevenLabs, Chanel breaks down the architecture behind Resonance and demonstrates what it looks like to ask AI for help, hear its response, and interrupt or redirect it in real time—all without leaving the development workflow.
Whether you are a developer, first-generation technologist, student, career changer, AI practitioner, or simply curious about the future of human-AI interaction, this Workshop Wednesday will challenge you to think beyond what AI can do and consider a different question: How should we interact with increasingly intelligent systems?
👤 About the Speaker
Chanel Power is a Machine Learning Engineer, Founder, Developer Relations leader, educator, and Founder & CEO of Mentor Me Collective, a global technical institute with a community of 40,000+ members across 120+ countries. Chanel's work spans AI/ML, developer education, accessibility, agentic systems, and building technology that expands how people learn, work, and access opportunity.
Through Mentor Me Collective, Chanel also hosts Workshop Wednesdays, a virtual learning series bringing technologists, builders, founders, and industry leaders together to make emerging technology and career knowledge more accessible.
🔑 Key Takeaways from This Workshop
Understand how context switching and cognitive load shape the way we interact with AI while working and learning.
Explore how voice can complement visual interfaces rather than replace them—and why the future of AI may be modality-aware, not simply voice-first.
Learn how Resonance combines Whisper, NVIDIA NIM + Nemotron, and ElevenLabs to create a voice-native AI experience.
See Resonance live through a developer workflow demonstrating voice interaction, low-latency responses, and real-time interruption.
Discover why latency, interruptibility, and human attention should be treated as core design considerations when building AI experiences.
Consider the larger question behind Resonance: As our systems become more intelligent, how do we make interacting with that intelligence less cognitively expensive?