A year ago, the question was whether AI avatar realism was convincing enough to use in front of a customer, whether for sales, support, or onboarding. That question is largely settled. These digital presenters have moved past the novelty stage and are now regular players in the
Prompt engineering gets you a demo. Context engineering gets you a production Voice AI agent. Think of LLMs as the world’s most brilliant librarians: they’ve read almost everything ever written, but without your help, they have the short-term memory of a goldfish. For text-based chatbots, a forgetful
AWS autoscaling works well for stateless applications. And for the stateless components of VoIP and real-time systems like APIs and routing backends, AWS Auto Scaling groups (ASGs) and Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS) do exactly what they’re designed to do. But stateful VoIP infrastructure components like FreeSWITCH
For the past several years, AV1 has been generating real excitement in the WebRTC and real-time communications space. Better compression, no licensing fees, and backing from the biggest names in tech made it look like the codec the industry had been waiting for. Then, on March 23,
