MSMartin Schweigerinvoiceaitrendsandtopics.hashnode.dev·1d ago · 10 min readWhy Streaming Transcription Drifts to English — and How to Fix It You built a multilingual voice product, tested it on Spanish audio, and it worked. Then it hit production traffic and started handing back English. A caller says "necesito ayuda con mi factura" and th00
MSMartin Schweigerinvoiceaitrendsandtopics.hashnode.dev·1d ago · 11 min readKeyterm Prompting: Boost Names, Jargon & Product TermsYour voice agent nails 98% of the conversation and then fumbles the one word that actually mattered — the caller's last name, your product SKU, the medication. "Metoprolol" comes back as "metoprolal."00
MSMartin Schweigerinvoiceaitrendsandtopics.hashnode.dev·1d ago · 10 min readReal-Time STT Latency: What "Fast Enough" Means Every voice agent evaluation eventually lands on the same fight: latency. Someone pulls up a benchmark, sees one provider faster than another, and declares a winner. The problem is that the two number00
MSMartin Schweigerinvoiceaitrendsandtopics.hashnode.dev·1d ago · 17 min readBuild a Voice Agent Without Pipecat or LiveKit If you've started building a voice agent in the last year, you've hit this question fast: do I need Pipecat or LiveKit? The internet says yes. Every tutorial reaches for an orchestration framework bef00
MSMartin Schweigerinvoiceaitrendsandtopics.hashnode.dev·1d ago · 13 min readPrompting Claude to Build Voice Agents Ask Claude to build you a voice agent and you'll get working code back in about thirty seconds. That part is easy now. The gap between that first draft and something you'd actually put in front of cus00