On September 22–23, I was in Chicago for the IIT Real-Time Communications Conference at Illinois Tech, an annual IEEE conference where industry engineers and academic researchers present work on real-time communications. This year’s tracks covered programmable networks, WebRTC applications, emergency communications, and AI in real-time communications. I
A production voice agent has a latency budget of roughly 800 milliseconds before a conversation starts to feel slow. That budget is spent across eight sequential stages, typically split across three to five different vendors depending on how the stack is assembled. This post maps that voice
Once again, WebRTC Live broadcasted direct from the RTC.ON conference in Kraków, Poland where WebRTC.ventures CTO Alberto Gonzalez interviewed two speakers: And one guest: WebRTC Live #117: Live from RTC.ON 2026 Episode highlights below the video. Episode Highlights Pratim Mallick, Staff Software Engineer at Stream Charles Duyk,
The most frustrating thing about speaking with a Voice AI agent is when it interrupts you, or it doesn’t understand the normal flow of human conversation. There are multiple ways to solve this depending on your use case, and coming up with the best architecture for your
