Deepgram has announced that it is acquiring Daily, the WebRTC infrastructure provider and a long-time WebRTC.ventures partner. We see this as a positive step for developers building real-time voice AI. Deepgram is an enterprise voice AI platform and one of the providers our team uses for speech-to-text
Microsoft will retire Azure Communication Services (ACS) as a standalone offering on September 30, 2028. After that date, Microsoft supports ACS video only in applications that connect to Microsoft Teams. Companies that use ACS to embed video in their own products will need a new platform, and
The choice between conversation-based and turn-based Voice AI agent patterns is a strategic business decision, not just a technical detail. Beyond what your agent will say, you must decide how it will run. This architectural choice defines how your voicebot will scale, what it will cost to
Last year, I attended the RTC.ON conference organized by Software Mansion for the first time. I shared my take on the conference in this WebRTC.ventures blog post: A WebRTC Developer’s Take on RTC.ON 2024. I also spoke at the 2024 conference, a recording of that talk is
