Voice AI in 2026: Why real-time voice agents are hard to ship in production
Latent Space · youtube · 2026-08-26
A new FDE-oriented podcast from Latent Space hosted by Basil Chatha, featuring five engineering leaders discussing the reality of Voice AI deployment.
Key Topics:
- Technical Hurdles: Why real-time voice-to-voice is rarely shipped in production; managing latency, reliability, CRM tool calls, and fallback models.
- Architecture & Economics: The impact of LLMs forgetting the middle of prompts on architecture; how large prompts destroy unit economics; voice agent costs vs. human labor costs.
- Deployment Traps: Turn-taking, HIPAA constraints, why outbound is easier than inbound, and the challenge of pleasing executives with voice output.
This serves as a pilot for a new engineering-focused series.
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