A real-time AI avatar gives a voice agent a face, and it also puts a third-party media service between your text-to-speech and the user. In a Pipecat pipeline, the avatar service receives your synthesized speech, renders the face, and sends back the audio the user hears. When
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
When Jeff Pulver invited me to attend Voice and Conversations on the Net (VON) 2026 on behalf of WebRTC.ventures, I accepted immediately. Three days with people building the next generation of voice communications was an easy yes. While at the conference earlier this week, the enthusiasm for
An AI chatbot built on retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), where it answers by pulling from your own knowledge sources, is only as safe as the content it is allowed to retrieve. The failure happens when retrieval runs with no notion of who is asking: the agent searches the
