Everything on voice and chat AI agents — real-time speech processing, telephony and phone-system automation, conversational AI, voice UX design, and production deployment.
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Hiya, First Orion, TNS - three independent reputation databases, three different scores, one ugly outcome if you trip them. Here is how AI voice deployments stay green-lit in 2026 across AT&T, T-Mobile, and Verizon.
Human turn gaps run 200-300ms. Most agents hit 800-1500ms. We unpack VAD vs semantic turn detection, duplex audio pipelines, and CallSphere's per-vertical barge-in thresholds.
Native iOS voice agent in Swift using AVFoundation and WebRTC. Real working SwiftUI code for ephemeral key flow, RTCPeerConnection setup, and a live waveform.
Vendor TTS demos always sound great. Production with your prompts on your audio path is a different story. Here is how we monitor MOS, CMOS, and prosody drift across ElevenLabs, OpenAI, and Cartesia in production.
Mistral's Voxtral 4B-TTS (March 26 2026) is open-weights, 3 GB quantized, and runs on a single 16 GB GPU. Here's the full local voice agent build using Voxtral Mini for STT and Voxtral TTS.
ElevenLabs shipped v3 expressive TTS and consolidated its agents stack into ElevenAgents in March 2026. The MCP-native, action-taking voice agent has arrived.
Retell lets you replace its LLM with a WebSocket of your own. Stream Claude or a fine-tune through Retell's voice runtime — Python WS server + pitfalls.
Expo Go cannot run WebRTC. EAS Dev Client can. Here is the 2026 config-plugin recipe for shipping AI voice agents on Expo without abandoning the managed workflow.
Customers spend only 10-30% of their LTV on first purchase. Reactivation is 5x cheaper than acquisition. AI voice unlocks the dormant 70% — here is the win-back build that actually converses.
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