https://thiyaga.xyz/tags/voice-ai/ Recent content in Voice AI on Blog by Thiyagaraj T Hugo en Wed, 29 Jul 2026 00:45:00 +0530 https://thiyaga.xyz/posts/livekit-voice-agents/ Wed, 29 Jul 2026 00:45:00 +0530 https://thiyaga.xyz/posts/livekit-voice-agents/ <p>Voice agent demos are easy to build. A LiveKit worker, an STT → LLM → TTS pipeline, and you have something that talks. The hard part is making it reliable.</p> <p>We run AI interview agents on LiveKit Cloud. An interview lasts up to an hour. A lost recording is a compliance problem. A lost transcript means the candidate has to redo the interview. A silent agent means a human sitting in an empty room, wondering if anyone is there.</p> https://thiyaga.xyz/posts/speculative-routing/ Wed, 29 Jul 2026 00:30:00 +0530 https://thiyaga.xyz/posts/speculative-routing/ <p><em>Voice agents are easy to demo and hard to scale. We landed on an architecture that keeps an agent natural, fast, and predictable: fire every possible response in parallel, let a fast router pick the winner. Here&rsquo;s the journey, and why this design works.</em></p> <hr> <h2 id="the-problem-nobodys-demo-solves">The problem nobody&rsquo;s demo solves</h2> <p>Every voice agent demo looks the same: clean audio, a cooperative user, a short scripted exchange. Then you ship it, and two things break immediately.</p>