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David RichardOct 15 · 7 min read

How to Build an AI Voice Agent That Doesn't Feel Like a Phone Tree

Getting an AI voice agent to work in a five-minute demo is easy. Getting one that real callers don't hang up on is a different job entirely. The difference rarely comes down to the model. It comes dow

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Mohammed UsmaniSep 26 · 11 min read

LiveKit turn detection on real phone calls: why a 2-second average hid a 3.6-second stall

TL;DR I built a voice agent you can call from a real phone (SIP through LiveKit Cloud) and measured every turn instead of trusting averages. On a test call the average reply took about 2 seconds, bu

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Mary LoganSep 1 · 18 min read

How to Build a Healthcare AI Voice Agent: Features, Architecture, and Development Process

Healthcare organisations handle thousands of phone interactions every day, from appointment requests and prescription enquiries to insurance questions and follow-up calls. Many of these conversations

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Asad IbrahimAug 10 · 6 min read

How I Cut My Voice Agent’s Groq API Usage by ~70% Without Changing the Model

A few weeks ago, I added a small AI voice assistant called Jarvis to my portfolio website. The setup was intentionally simple: Groq handled text generation, while the browser’s Web Speech API handled

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Manu ShuklaAug 3 · 18 min read

Voice agent costs in 2026: MAI-Voice-2-Flash at $15 per 1M characters vs OpenAI Realtime at $64

Voice agent costs in 2026: MAI-Voice-2-Flash at $15 per 1M characters vs OpenAI Realtime at $64 Summary. Microsoft priced MAI-Voice-2-Flash at \(15 per 1M characters on 23 July 2026, 32% below MAI-V

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Manu ShuklaJul 22 · 14 min read

OpenAI Presence vs the Realtime API: 3 numbers that decide your 2026 build-versus-buy call

OpenAI Presence vs the Realtime API: 3 numbers that decide your 2026 build-versus-buy call Summary. OpenAI launched Presence on 22 July 2026, an enterprise product for deploying voice and chat agents

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Manu ShuklaJul 18 · 13 min read

$0.04 a minute: gpt-realtime-2.1 voice agents with reasoning and tool use (2026 build guide)

$0.04 a minute: gpt-realtime-2.1 voice agents with reasoning and tool use (2026 build guide) Summary. On July 6, 2026, OpenAI shipped two speech-to-speech models, gpt-realtime-2.1 and gpt-realtime-2.1

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Learn with HJJul 11 · 6 min read

Real-Time Voice Agents: The Call Center Is Getting a Brain Upgrade

🚀 Real-Time Voice Agents: The Call Center Is Getting a Brain Upgrade 👋 Welcome to Day 36 of 90 Days of AI. 🎯 Today we are tackling Real-Time Voice Agents: The Call Center Is Getting a Brain Upgrad

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marcuschenJun 27 · 3 min read

The 2am call that dropped before the user finished talking, and the week I spent finding out why my tracer never saw it

The call came in at 2am. Not a page, an actual support recording, flagged by a customer who said our voice agent "hung up on her mid-sentence." I pulled the trace. The LLM call was perfect. 380ms, cle

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Vasudev SiddhMay 4 · 8 min read

Vaani: Building a Voice Agent That Knows When Not to Talk

The hardest part of a voice agent is not making it speak. It is making it speak at the right time, with the right context, and then leaving behind enough evidence that a human can trust what happened.

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How to Build an AI Voice Agent That Doesn't Feel Like a Phone Tree

LiveKit turn detection on real phone calls: why a 2-second average hid a 3.6-second stall

How to Build a Healthcare AI Voice Agent: Features, Architecture, and Development Process

How I Cut My Voice Agent’s Groq API Usage by ~70% Without Changing the Model

Voice agent costs in 2026: MAI-Voice-2-Flash at $15 per 1M characters vs OpenAI Realtime at $64

OpenAI Presence vs the Realtime API: 3 numbers that decide your 2026 build-versus-buy call

$0.04 a minute: gpt-realtime-2.1 voice agents with reasoning and tool use (2026 build guide)

Real-Time Voice Agents: The Call Center Is Getting a Brain Upgrade

The 2am call that dropped before the user finished talking, and the week I spent finding out why my tracer never saw it

Vaani: Building a Voice Agent That Knows When Not to Talk