Voice Ai
Speech-to-speech vs pipeline voice AI: choose per call, not per platform
Speech-to-speech and pipeline voice agents are no longer separated by latency. After eight days in which every pipeline stage gained a faster model and speech-to-speech systems stopped blocking on reasoning, the choice comes down to which guarantees a call needs. Here is what each path can't do, from running both in production, and a rule for choosing per call type.
Oct 9, 202610 min read
Voice Ai
Building on a frozen speech-to-speech model: the delegation pattern behind natural voice AI
Speech-to-speech models sound remarkably human, but they hand you a locked instruction budget, no mid-call edits, and behavior you can't fully control. The way production teams get real work out of them is a delegation pattern — the live model talks, a second model does the thinking. Here's how it works and where it breaks.
Sep 21, 20264 min read