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
If your voice AI system can touch real systems or trigger actions with business consequences, your approach to AI agent tool calling security matters. When voice AI agents can modify customer data, trigger escalations, update ticketing systems, or execute workflows—especially for customer service in regulated industries like
