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Voice Agents Can Just Do Things

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Session Description

Too many voice AI integrations still treat speech as fancier chat: audio in, audio out. But we're at a point where speech can be a control plane for software, and most developers are unaware that voice has become a capability overhang. Current realtime models can understand intent, call tools, speak while work is underway, recover from corrections, and decide what the user actually needs to hear. As a result, we're seeing three practical patterns emerge: voice-to-action, systems-to-voice, and voice-to-voice. We’ll show how each pattern changes the architecture, where Realtime 2’s reasoning and tool-calling matter, and why chained STT / LLM / TTS systems start to break down as the interaction patterns become richer.

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Analyzing 10,000 Sales Calls With AI In 2 Weeks — Charlie Guo (speaker-match related prior/adjacent AI Engineer video; captions: English auto-captions).

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I want to start with a question. How many sales calls can you listen to and take notes on in a single day? If you assume each call is 30 minutes and you work an 8 hour day with no lunch break, that gives you 16 calls. If you have absolutely zero work life balance and only stop to sleep for 8 hours a day, you might get to 32 calls.

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