A developer at AssemblyAI argues that the best voice agent API is determined by speech-to-text accuracy, not flashy features, because errors in transcription propagate through the entire pipeline. The…
Fish Audio, a Palo Alto voice-AI startup, has raised $52m in a seed round and reports $21m in annual recurring revenue from more than 8 million users. The company gives away its best models and charge…
A developer building AI voice agents for US clients details a production integration using Retell for conversation handling and n8n for backend logic. The setup uses two webhooks: one for lifecycle ev…
A developer explains how to give voice AI agents built on LiveKit, Vapi, or Retell a legitimate Indian (+91) phone number, addressing the lack of developer-friendly tooling from Indian telecom provide…
A developer building a real-time voice agent asks how production platforms like Bland.ai, Retell, and Vapi orchestrate prompts and conversation flow without relying on huge hand-written system prompts…
A developer built VoiceDash, a white-label multi-tenant SaaS platform that allows agencies to resell AI voice agents under their own brand. The project revealed that multi-tenancy requires scoping eve…
OpenAI released gpt-realtime-2 on May 7, offering speech-to-speech reasoning at $0.25-$0.35 per minute, which collapsed the AI voice wrapper layer by eliminating the need for stitching multiple vendor…
A developer benchmarked five voice AI stacks using the same one-minute conversation and found that only two—OpenAI's Realtime API and LiveKit Agents with Gemini 2.0 Flash Live—consistently stayed unde…