Self-hosting a voice AI pipeline gives you control that managed APIs can’t offer: you choose the models, you decide where they run relative to each other, and you keep audio data within your own infrastructure. Getting there means managing GPU workloads, model placement, and service networking yourself.
Now that everyone’s back from summer break here in Madrid, it feels like the right time to recap AI Tinkerers Madrid: AI in Real-Time Communication Systems, which WebRTC.ventures sponsored and hosted this past July alongside BTS, who provided their offices and a great spread of local snacks.
When WebRTC quality degrades on your SFU (jitter spikes, frozen frames, choppy audio), your monitoring tells you something is wrong. It doesn’t tell you what is responsible. Is the network dropping packets? Or is your server too loaded to read them from the socket on time? The
The annual ClueCon conference founded by the creators of FreeSWITCH has always been where the real-time communications community gathers to share what’s working, what’s breaking, and what’s next. This year’s edition, August 10-14 at The Midland Hotel in Chicago, made one thing unmistakably clear: AI is no
