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Insights, tutorials, and updates from our team about voice AI technology, best practices, and industry trends.

The rise of open-source real-time voice models in 2026 – and how to integrate them without rewiring your agent
AI Engineering
The rise of open-source real-time voice models in 2026 – and how to integrate them without rewiring your agent
Cover recent releases (Nemotron ASR, Chatterbox, VibeVoice) and explain why a uniform voice layer approach with frequently swapping models is now realistic.
6 min read
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The Vibe Coding Hangover: What Happens When AI Writes 95% of your code?
Engineering
The Vibe Coding Hangover: What Happens When AI Writes 95% of your code?
Y Combinator reports that 25% of its W25 project has codebases which are 95% AI-generated. This article discusses the real tradeoffs: speed vs. technical debt, prototype vs. production and why senior engineers report development hell.
10 min read
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Sub-Second Voice Agent Latency: A Practical Architecture Guide
Engineering
Sub-Second Voice Agent Latency: A Practical Architecture Guide
Breaking down the real-world latency budget for voice AI agents (STT LLM TTS), explaining where milliseconds are lost and how streaming architectures and provider selection impact end-to-end response time.
8 min read
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Multi-Provider STT/TTS strategies: When and Why to Abstract Your Speech Stack
Voice AI
Multi-Provider STT/TTS strategies: When and Why to Abstract Your Speech Stack
Explore the trade-offs of locking into a single speech provider vs. using an abstraction layer for STT and TTS, learn about cost optimization, quality fallback, latency routing, and avoiding vendor lock-in
7 min read
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Call recording done right - securing, retrieval and search at scale!
Technical
Call recording done right - securing, retrieval and search at scale!
Stop using call recordings as an afterthought - here's how to build a voice-dating pipeline that scales, stays compliant, and actually makes your recordings useful.
9 min read
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voice-aicall-recordingcompliance+3
Analyse of an AI-powered appointment scheduler: From the first ring to confirmed booking
engineering
Analyse of an AI-powered appointment scheduler: From the first ring to confirmed booking
Deep dive into how AI voice agents handle appointment scheduling from the moment a call comes in to sending the confirmation text, understanding the voice pipeline, calendar integrations and real-time processing.
7 min read
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WebSocket Patterns for Voice AI: Connection Management, Reconnection and Backpressure
Technical
WebSocket Patterns for Voice AI: Connection Management, Reconnection and Backpressure
Deep dive into the WebSocket Architecture patterns that make real-time voice AI work in production: from the connection life cycle to handling slow clients... and here's what nobody tells you.
11 min read
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Adding voice to your PydanticAI Agent in Under an Hour
Technical
Adding voice to your PydanticAI Agent in Under an Hour
PydanticAI is fantastic for building type-safe AI agents, but what if you want your agent to speak... Let's add real-time voice capabilities to your existing PydanticAI agent using the Sayna Python SDK.
7 min read
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Synthetic voice testing: Simulating Callers without Hiring Humans
AI Testing
Synthetic voice testing: Simulating Callers without Hiring Humans
Testing voice systems used to mean hiring real people to make test calls, but what if you could simulate thousands of realistic callers without the overhead, delay and cost of human testers?
9 min read
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Handling barge-in : What Happens When Users Interrupt Your AI mid-sentence
Voice AI
Handling barge-in : What Happens When Users Interrupt Your AI mid-sentence
Real conversations are messy . Users don't wait for your AI to finish talking before jumping into questions or corrections. Here's how to handle interruptions gracefully in Voice AI systems.
9 min read
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Tenant Based SIP Routing: Serving Multiple Customers from a Single Deployment
FeaturedTechnical
Tenant Based SIP Routing: Serving Multiple Customers from a Single Deployment
You have one server. You have fifty customers. Every customer wants their own phone numbers, their own webhooks, their own isolated traffic. Here is how Sayna routes SIP calls to the right tenant without duplicating infrastructure.
15 min read
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Your LangChain Agent Can Talk Now. It Took 30 Minutes.
Technical
Your LangChain Agent Can Talk Now. It Took 30 Minutes.
Adding voice to your AI agent isn't as hard as you think, but only if you stop trying to solve it alone.
12 min read
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Voice AI Latency: The 300ms Barrier That Separates Human from Robot
FeaturedTechnical
Voice AI Latency: The 300ms Barrier That Separates Human from Robot
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.
10 min read
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Stop Making Your Users Wait: Why Chunked Streaming is the Only Sane Way to Build Voice AI
FeaturedTechnical
Stop Making Your Users Wait: Why Chunked Streaming is the Only Sane Way to Build Voice AI
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.
10 min read
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Real-Time Voice Analytics: Extracting Business Intelligence from Every Conversation
FeaturedTechnical
Real-Time Voice Analytics: Extracting Business Intelligence from Every Conversation
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.
13 min read
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Why Your Voice AI Doesn't Need to Be a Monolith
FeaturedTechnical
Why Your Voice AI Doesn't Need to Be a Monolith
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.
9 min read
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The WebRTC vs SIP Decision: Choosing the Right Protocol for Your Voice AI Application
FeaturedTechnical
The WebRTC vs SIP Decision: Choosing the Right Protocol for Your Voice AI Application
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.
11 min read
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Multi-Provider Voice AI: Building Resilience Through Provider Abstraction
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Multi-Provider Voice AI: Building Resilience Through Provider Abstraction
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.
11 min read
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Voice Activity Detection: The Unsung Hero of Natural AI Conversations
FeaturedTechnical
Voice Activity Detection: The Unsung Hero of Natural AI Conversations
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.
12 min read
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Building HIPAA-Compliant Voice AI: Security Architecture for Healthcare Applications
Security
Building HIPAA-Compliant Voice AI: Security Architecture for Healthcare Applications
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.
12 min read
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Scaling Voice AI from MVP to Enterprise: Architecture Patterns That Actually Work
FeaturedTechnical
Scaling Voice AI from MVP to Enterprise: Architecture Patterns That Actually Work
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.
12 min read
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SIP Integration for Modern AI: Bridging Legacy Telephony with Next Gen Voice Agents
FeaturedTechnical
SIP Integration for Modern AI: Bridging Legacy Telephony with Next Gen Voice Agents
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.
11 min read
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The Hidden Economics of Voice AI: Why Your Per-Call Costs Are Killing Your Unit Economics
FeaturedBusiness
The Hidden Economics of Voice AI: Why Your Per-Call Costs Are Killing Your Unit Economics
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.
9 min read
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The Framework Wars Don't Matter: Why Voice Infrastructure Should Be AI-Agnostic
FeaturedTechnical
The Framework Wars Don't Matter: Why Voice Infrastructure Should Be AI-Agnostic
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.
11 min read
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