Speech Technology
TTS, STT, voice cloning, latency engineering, and the hard parts of making AI sound human.
25 articles
How to Benchmark a Voice Agent's End-to-End Latency
How to Benchmark a Voice Agent's End-to-End Latency. A practical, vendor-neutral guide for teams building or buying voice AI agents.
Whisper vs Deepgram vs ElevenLabs STT
Whisper vs Deepgram vs ElevenLabs STT. A practical, vendor-neutral guide for teams building or buying voice AI agents.
Streaming Audio Over WebRTC for Voice Agents
Streaming Audio Over WebRTC for Voice Agents. A practical, vendor-neutral guide for teams building or buying voice AI agents.
Comparing Neural TTS Architectures
Comparing Neural TTS Architectures. A practical, vendor-neutral guide for teams building or buying voice AI agents.
Phoneme-Level Tuning for Voice Agents
Phoneme-Level Tuning for Voice Agents. A practical, vendor-neutral guide for teams building or buying voice AI agents.
Why Some Voices Sound Robotic Even in 2026
Why Some Voices Sound Robotic Even in 2026. A practical, vendor-neutral guide for teams building or buying voice AI agents.
Voice Cloning for Customer Brands: A Buyer's Guide
Voice Cloning for Customer Brands: A Buyer's Guide. A practical, vendor-neutral guide for teams building or buying voice AI agents.
Echo Cancellation in Real-Time Voice AI
Echo Cancellation in Real-Time Voice AI. A practical, vendor-neutral guide for teams building or buying voice AI agents.
How Sample Rate Affects Voice Agent Quality
How Sample Rate Affects Voice Agent Quality. A practical, vendor-neutral guide for teams building or buying voice AI agents.
How Background Noise Affects Voice Agent Accuracy
How Background Noise Affects Voice Agent Accuracy. A practical, vendor-neutral guide for teams building or buying voice AI agents.
Audio Codecs for Voice Agents: Opus, PCMU, and More
Audio Codecs for Voice Agents: Opus, PCMU, and More. A practical, vendor-neutral guide for teams building or buying voice AI agents.
Diarization: Knowing Who's Speaking in a Voice Conversation
Diarization: Knowing Who's Speaking in a Voice Conversation. A practical, vendor-neutral guide for teams building or buying voice AI agents.
Voice Activity Detection in Production Voice Agents
Voice Activity Detection in Production Voice Agents. A practical, vendor-neutral guide for teams building or buying voice AI agents.
The Engineering Behind Sub-Second Voice Agents
The Engineering Behind Sub-Second Voice Agents. A practical, vendor-neutral guide for teams building or buying voice AI agents.
How STT Handles Disfluencies and Filler Words
How STT Handles Disfluencies and Filler Words. A practical, vendor-neutral guide for teams building or buying voice AI agents.
Multilingual TTS: Choosing a Voice Model
Multilingual TTS: Choosing a Voice Model. A practical, vendor-neutral guide for teams building or buying voice AI agents.
Why TTS Quality Plateaus and How to Push Past It
Why TTS Quality Plateaus and How to Push Past It. A practical, vendor-neutral guide for teams building or buying voice AI agents.
How TTS Models Handle Numbers, Dates, and Acronyms
How TTS Models Handle Numbers, Dates, and Acronyms. A practical, vendor-neutral guide for teams building or buying voice AI agents.
Streaming STT: How to Cut Recognition Latency
Streaming STT: How to Cut Recognition Latency. A practical, vendor-neutral guide for teams building or buying voice AI agents.
Streaming TTS: How to Cut First-Audio Latency
Streaming TTS: How to Cut First-Audio Latency. A practical, vendor-neutral guide for teams building or buying voice AI agents.
Latency Engineering for Real-Time Voice Agents
Latency Engineering for Real-Time Voice Agents. A practical, vendor-neutral guide for teams building or buying voice AI agents.
Voice Cloning Ethics: A Practical Framework
Voice Cloning Ethics: A Practical Framework. A practical, vendor-neutral guide for teams building or buying voice AI agents.
Voice Cloning: How It Works and Why It Matters
Voice Cloning: How It Works and Why It Matters. A practical, vendor-neutral guide for teams building or buying voice AI agents.
Speech-to-Text Word Error Rate Explained
Speech-to-Text Word Error Rate Explained. A practical, vendor-neutral guide for teams building or buying voice AI agents.
Text-to-Speech in 2026: The State of the Art
Text-to-Speech in 2026: The State of the Art. A practical, vendor-neutral guide for teams building or buying voice AI agents.