Voice agents decide from transcripts, not audio — that's the real gap
aftahi_ai · x · 2026-10-19
A widely shared article argues the core flaw of voice agents is that they make decisions from transcripts rather than raw audio — while thinking, they're effectively 'deaf and blind' to paralinguistic cues like pacing, pauses, and emotion. The author sees this, not latency, as the root cause of poor voice AI experiences.
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