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The entire voice AI industry is in collective denial about latency. Here's the brutal math: cross 300ms and you're not having a conversation, you're operating a voice-activated vending machine.

The voice AI industry is collectively making users wait for no damn reason. Here's why streaming text chunks to TTS isn't just an optimization it's the difference between a conversation and a monologue.

While everyone's racing to make their AI talk faster, they're missing the goldmine flowing through their voice pipelines. Every conversation is leaking intelligence, and most companies are letting it drain straight into /dev/null.

The industry got it wrong again. Here's why separating voice streaming from agent logic isn't just smart architecture it's the only sane way forward.

Everyone's obsessed with which protocol is 'better' while missing the point entirely. WebRTC vs SIP isn't about technical superiority. It's about understanding what you're actually building and picking the tool that won't sabotage you six months from now.

The voice AI industry wants you to marry a provider. I say play the field. Here's why provider abstraction isn't just smart architecture it's your insurance policy against the inevitable enshittification of your favorite API.

Everyone's obsessed with LLMs and fancy prompts. Meanwhile, the real magic making voice AI feel human happens in 50 milliseconds of signal processing that nobody talks about.

The healthcare industry wants voice AI desperately. But HIPAA compliance isn't just a checkbox it's an architectural philosophy that changes everything. Here's how to build voice AI that lawyers actually approve and patients actually trust.

Everyone can build a voice AI demo. Ship it to production? Different story. Scale it to enterprise? That's where the bodies are buried. Here's the roadmap that actually works, complete with the scars to prove it.

Everyone wants to revolutionize voice communication. Meanwhile, 90% of the world's phone calls still run through infrastructure from the 1990s. Here's how to make peace with that reality and actually ship something that works.

The voice AI industry is collectively hemorrhaging money on a pricing model designed by people who've never run a business. Here's why bundled pricing is a scam and how separated architecture changes everything.

Everyone's fighting over whether LangChain beats PydanticAI or if raw prompts are the way. Meanwhile, your voice infrastructure is sitting there coupled to your framework choice like it's 2003 and we're still debating Struts vs Spring. Here's why that's insane.