Your Voice Agent is Just a Walkie-Talkie

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Everyone says cascaded voice pipelines are dead and native speech models are the future. Yet

production environments are still dominated by STT-LLM-TTS stacks. Reconciling the natural flow of

native audio with the elite reasoning of a cascaded agent remains an unsolved systems problem. This

talk dissects the brutal technical trade-offs behind that counterintuitive reality. We will break

down why your voice agent is still stuck behaving like a walkie-talkie and map out the specific

technical roadmap required to build full-duplex AI that actually works.

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