Reducing Voice Agent Latency by Testing Different TTS Engines
If, for whatever reason, you can not reduce the token size of your voice agent prompt but still want to
If, for whatever reason, you can not reduce the token size of your voice agent prompt but still want to
Check your voice agent prompt for zero width character immediately after creating the first draft of the prompt. What are
I’ve been tracking my time for over a decade using a time-tracking tool called 'Hravest'. So naturally,
As I approach 1000 hours working with AI, I discovered 4 LLM failure modes and 1 user failure mode. The
Your Voice AI Agent uses a specific LLM model: Make sure your test simulator (feature used for simulation testing) uses
Most AI projects fail esp at the enterprise level. “95% of enterprise AI and GenAI pilots fail to achieve measurable
0:00 /3:37 1× I stripped the formatting from my voice agent prompt to save tokens. Here is what
0:00 /2:20 1× If you build voice AI agents, you run tests. You write success criteria. You let
0:00 /2:42 1× I added a small section to a voice agent prompt last week. It looks like
Retell AI ships a feature called Current Time Awareness. You set a timezone, and the platform is meant to inject
I have been testing a voice agent for the last 3 weeks. That seems like a lot of testing. Yes,
Open the Retell AI dashboard, and you will find a tab labelled "Transfer Screening Agents." Click on the
What is the Abuse Ladder in Voice AI? The abuse ladder is a short, structured response script for when a
I built Mark, a voice receptionist for an HVAC company. He runs on Retell, the platform we use to host
0:00 /3:06 1× I built an AI voice receptionist called Olivia for a company in Florida. She answers
0:00 /3:32 1× If you instruct your voice agent to treat collecting a field (say, the caller'
Most teams I have spoken to aim for around 800 ms end-to-end latency for voice agents. Here is why I
Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite is one of the best models for production voice AI right now. It is fast, cheap,
0:00 /3:51 1× Call your voice agent a "receptionist," not an "assistant. Because the word
0:00 /2:38 1× If your agent sounds like a robot, callers disengage fast. Some get nasty. You'
A contraction is a shortened form of two words, usually made by replacing missing letters with an apostrophe. Examples: Using
If your voice agent ends calls too early, skips confirmations, or sounds like it is reading a script instead of
The following is the virtual receptionist for a dental clinic, powered by GPT 5.1 (It's the one
What Is Caveman? Caveman is a Claude Code skill that makes Claude respond like a caveman, stripping out all the
Most businesses deploy a voice AI agent and just hope it works. The smart ones test two versions against each
Running a voice AI operation without monitoring is like driving at night with your headlights off. Everything might be fine
If you've self-hosted n8n on a VPS and your webhooks from Retell AI, GoHighLevel, Twilio, or any other
Self-hosting n8n is not optional but a necessary evil. When a single workflow can use up to 80% of your
Cal.com is an open-source, API-driven scheduling platform you can run hosted or self-hosted. Unlike Calendly, it is designed to
Here is how most Voice AI agencies handle client billing: 1. Log into your provider dashboard. 2. See workspace-level totals.