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AssemblyAI, LiveKit Discuss Real-World Voice Agent Challenges

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AssemblyAI and LiveKit recently hosted a meetup in New York focusing on the challenges of building real-world voice agents. Panelists from Boardy, a founder networking platform, and Flagler Health, an AI platform for musculoskeletal care, shared their experiences. Both companies encountered similar production hurdles despite serving vastly different user bases and use cases, highlighting issues like trust, turn-taking, latency, and the unpredictable nature of human interaction. AI

IMPACT Highlights common obstacles in deploying voice AI, suggesting areas for future development in agent reliability and user experience.

RANK_REASON This item is a recap of a meetup discussing challenges in building voice agents, not a primary announcement or release.

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AssemblyAI, LiveKit Discuss Real-World Voice Agent Challenges

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  1. AssemblyAI blog TIER_1 English(EN) ·

    Building voice agents for the real world: 7 takeaways from our NYC meetup with LiveKit

    Boardy and Flagler Health build voice agents for completely different people — a founder network and a clinic's patient phone line. They hit almost exactly the same walls in production. Seven takeaways from the panel.

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