Testing an AI voice agent is nothing like testing a standard application. You’re validating a live, real-time pipeline where WebRTC audio streaming, speech-to-text, LLM reasoning, and text-to-speech synthesis work together within milliseconds, every time a user speaks. Traditional QA processes and frameworks weren’t built for this. They
Recently, I read an article on LinkedIn that captured something many experienced developers have been feeling: software development is changing rapidly in the age of generative AI, but not always in ways we fully understand. One quote especially resonated with me: “An MIT professor called AI ‘a
For organizations prioritizing data privacy and zero variable cloud costs related to inference, it is entirely possible to build a voice agent using off-the-shelf open source tools. In this post, we will outline a practical Voice AI stack that avoids vendor lock-in while still supporting real-time, natural
This project shows how to prototype a real-time voice AI Android app using Gemini 2.0’s Live API over WebSockets as an open-source proof of concept before committing to full production infrastructure. By combining low-level audio control on Android, duplex audio streaming, and multimodal AI, we built an
