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October 21, 2026

How to choose an LLM for production voice tasks

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Kelsey Foster
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October 21, 2026

How to evaluate TTS for voice agents

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By 
Kelsey Foster
, 
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October 21, 2026

AI voice agent pricing in 2026: flat hourly rate vs stacked per-minute costs

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Kelsey Foster
, 
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October 21, 2026

TTS latency explained: time to first audio vs. time to first byte

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Kelsey Foster
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October 21, 2026

Why small LLMs win on short transcripts and lose at meeting length

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By 
Kelsey Foster
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October 14, 2026

What is text to speech? How modern conversational TTS works

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Kelsey Foster
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October 13, 2026

How to cut LLM costs on voice workloads without losing quality

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By 
Kelsey Foster
, 
Growth
October 13, 2026

Voice Standard Bench: how we grade LLMs on voice post-processing tasks

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By 
Justin Hazen
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October 9, 2026

Async, sync, or realtime? How to choose the right speech-to-text API

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By 
Kelsey Foster
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September 30, 2026

Ambient scribes beyond healthcare: Building for veterinary and legal

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Kelsey Foster
, 
Growth
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September 30, 2026

When keyterm prompting backfires

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By 
Kelsey Foster
, 
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September 30, 2026

The voice agent launch runbook: ramp, rollback, and on-call

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By 
Kelsey Foster
, 
Growth
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September 30, 2026

How to evaluate a speech-to-text API for an education platform (2026)

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By 
Kelsey Foster
, 
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September 23, 2026

MacWhisper vs. Superwhisper vs. Blurt: local models, hybrid apps, and a hosted dictation API

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By 
Kelsey Foster
, 
Growth
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September 23, 2026

Speech to text on Mac: built-in dictation vs. the alternatives

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By 
Kelsey Foster
, 
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September 23, 2026

Best Wispr Flow alternatives

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Kelsey Foster
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September 23, 2026

Best open-source dictation apps for Mac (2026)

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Kelsey Foster
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September 23, 2026

Why your voice agent mishears "8" as "H"

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By 
Kelsey Foster
, 
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September 16, 2026

Sync API or Dictation API? How to pick for your dictation feature

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By 
Kelsey Foster
, 
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September 16, 2026

Dictation API vs speech-to-text + an LLM: should you buy the bundle or build it?

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By 
Kelsey Foster
, 
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October 7, 2026

Best dictation APIs in 2026: 9 options compared for developers

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By 
Kelsey Foster
, 
Growth
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September 30, 2026

How to build clinical dictation on AssemblyAI

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By 
Kelsey Foster
, 
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September 30, 2026

Voice AI observability: What to instrument once the agent is live

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By 
Kelsey Foster
, 
Growth
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October 20, 2026

How to load test a voice agent before launch (plus a production-readiness checklist)

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By 
Kelsey Foster
, 
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September 2, 2026

Voice coding in 2026: how developers dictate to Claude Code, Cursor, and Copilot

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By 
Kelsey Foster
, 
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September 2, 2026

Inside dictation cleanup: How raw speech becomes finished text

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By 
Kelsey Foster
, 
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September 2, 2026

Dictation features: What product teams are shipping in 2026

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By 
Kelsey Foster
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September 30, 2026

Prompt engineering 101: a crash course for 2026

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By 
Kelsey Foster
, 
Growth
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August 26, 2026

How to analyze a call recording with AI (no code required)

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By 
Kelsey Foster
, 
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September 30, 2026

Best Python audio processing libraries in 2026 (and when to use a speech-to-text API)

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By 
Kelsey Foster
, 
Growth
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September 30, 2026

How to build an AI voice translator in Python

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By 
Kelsey Foster
, 
Growth
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August 26, 2026

How to apply LLMs to multi-speaker audio recordings

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By 
Kelsey Foster
, 
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August 26, 2026

Hugging Face Transformers tutorial: pipeline, tokenizer, and models in 2026

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By 
Kelsey Foster
, 
Growth
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August 26, 2026

How to learn machine learning in 2026: an updated roadmap

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By 
Kelsey Foster
, 
Growth
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August 26, 2026

What are word embeddings? From Word2Vec to modern embedding models

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By 
Kelsey Foster
, 
Growth
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August 26, 2026

PyTorch crash course: tensors, autograd, and your first training loop

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By 
Kelsey Foster
, 
Growth
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August 26, 2026

How to add voice-note transcription to your app

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By 
Kelsey Foster
, 
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August 26, 2026

How to build push-to-talk dictation with the Sync API

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By 
Kelsey Foster
, 
Growth
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October 20, 2026

What is a dictation API? How voice input becomes finished text

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By 
Kelsey Foster
, 
Growth
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August 19, 2026

Universal-3.5 Pro for pre-recorded audio: code-switching and contextual prompting in action

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By 
Kelsey Foster
, 
Growth
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August 19, 2026

Sync Speech-to-Text API: a technical walkthrough of one-request transcription

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By 
Kelsey Foster
, 
Growth
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September 30, 2026

What it takes to build smarter voice agents: lessons from Retell and Super

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By 
Kelsey Foster
, 
Growth
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August 19, 2026

Build an AI medical note-taker with one API

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By 
Kelsey Foster
, 
Growth
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September 30, 2026

Entity accuracy in speech-to-text: why word accuracy isn't enough

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By 
Kelsey Foster
, 
Growth
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September 30, 2026

Best voice agent API for contact centers: How to choose in 2026

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By 
Kelsey Foster
, 
Growth
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September 30, 2026

Agent Context Carryover: more accurate voice agent transcription on LiveKit

Insights & Use Cases
By 
Martin Schweiger
, 
Technical Product Marketing Manager
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September 30, 2026

OpenAI Realtime API alternatives in 2026 (and how to migrate)

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By 
Kelsey Foster
, 
Growth
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October 20, 2026

Best voice agent API in 2026: 6 options compared for developers

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By 
Kelsey Foster
, 
Growth
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September 30, 2026

The hard cases in speaker diarization: overlap, short turns, and noise

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By 
Kelsey Foster
, 
Growth
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August 12, 2026

Does Whisper do speaker diarization? Whisper + pyannote, and its limits

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By 
Kelsey Foster
, 
Growth
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August 12, 2026

How to measure speaker diarization accuracy (cpWER) in Python

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By 
Kelsey Foster
, 
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August 4, 2026

AssemblyAI vs self-hosting on Baseten, Modal, or Fireworks

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By 
Kelsey Foster
, 
Growth
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September 30, 2026

AssemblyAI vs NVIDIA Parakeet and Canary: Choosing speech-to-text for production

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By 
Kelsey Foster
, 
Growth
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September 30, 2026

AssemblyAI vs Qwen3-ASR: picking speech-to-text for production

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By 
Kelsey Foster
, 
Growth
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September 30, 2026

AssemblyAI vs Whisper Large-v3: Which speech-to-text should you ship?

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By 
Kelsey Foster
, 
Growth
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August 4, 2026

The real cost of self-hosting open-source speech-to-text

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By 
Kelsey Foster
, 
Growth
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September 30, 2026

How to build real-time agent assist on streaming speech-to-text

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By 
Kelsey Foster
, 
Growth
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August 4, 2026

How to build an AI scribe for therapy sessions that writes progress notes

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By 
Kelsey Foster
, 
Growth
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September 30, 2026

Which voice agent platform has the best developer experience?

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By 
Kelsey Foster
, 
Growth
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September 30, 2026

Build smarter voice agents: 7 takeaways from our July 23rd San Francisco meetup

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By 
Maxinne Rillo
, 
Senior Field & Campaign Marketing Manager
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July 24, 2026

AssemblyAI's Universal-3.5 Pro Realtime is the only model in Coval's Human Parity Zone

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By 
Kelsey Foster
, 
Growth
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July 22, 2026

Speech-to-text API fundamentals: authenticate, poll status, and parse the JSON response

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By 
Kelsey Foster
, 
Growth
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July 22, 2026

Transcription webhooks and callbacks: get notified when a transcript is ready

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By 
Kelsey Foster
, 
Growth
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July 22, 2026

How to transcribe audio from a mobile app (iOS/Swift, Android/Kotlin, React Native)

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By 
Kelsey Foster
, 
Growth
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September 30, 2026

Why real-time is the future of speech-to-text

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By 
Kelsey Foster
, 
Growth
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September 30, 2026

AI medical scribe: build vs buy against Nuance DAX and Abridge

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By 
Kelsey Foster
, 
Growth
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September 30, 2026

Best voice agent API for startups building their first voice product

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By 
Kelsey Foster
, 
Growth
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August 25, 2026

5 Lessons from building a voice AI prescription agent

Insights & Use Cases
By 
Stefan Blos
, 
Developer Advocate at Stream
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DER vs. cpWER: why the standard diarization metric ranks systems backwards

Insights & Use Cases
By 
Gabriel Oexle
, 
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July 17, 2026

How to catch voice agent regressions before your users do

Insights & Use Cases
By 
Griffin Sharp
, 
Applied AI Engineer
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September 30, 2026

Fast ASR for voice agents: bring your own turn detection

Insights & Use Cases
By 
Kelsey Foster
, 
Growth
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July 15, 2026

Build a dictation app with the Sync API

Insights & Use Cases
By 
Kelsey Foster
, 
Growth
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September 30, 2026

Time to first token: the latency metric that decides voice agents

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By 
Kelsey Foster
, 
Growth
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September 30, 2026

Bring your own orchestration: the sync HTTP pattern for voice agents

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By 
Kelsey Foster
, 
Growth
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September 30, 2026

Sync vs. async transcription: which to use and how fast each can go

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By 
Kelsey Foster
, 
Growth
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September 30, 2026

How to build a voice agent that transfers to a human

Insights & Use Cases
By 
Kelsey Foster
, 
Growth
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September 30, 2026

What is conversation context in voice AI — and why it improves accuracy

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By 
Kelsey Foster
, 
Growth
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October 13, 2026

Which voice agent API has the best developer experience?

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By 
Kelsey Foster
, 
Growth
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September 30, 2026

Voice agent architectures explained: STT→LLM→TTS vs. speech-to-speech vs. one API

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By 
Kelsey Foster
, 
Growth
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July 8, 2026

AssemblyAI vs. Deepgram for batch transcription: accuracy, turnaround, and pricing

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By 
Kelsey Foster
, 
Growth
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September 30, 2026

Async transcription accuracy on hard audio: noisy call centers, overlapping speakers, and filler words

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By 
Kelsey Foster
, 
Growth
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October 13, 2026

What languages does the Voice Agent API support?

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By 
Kelsey Foster
, 
Growth
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June 29, 2026

Analyzing and scoring voice agent calls with the LLM Gateway

Insights & Use Cases
By 
Kelsey Foster
, 
Growth
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June 29, 2026

Batch transcription at scale: turnaround, throughput, and concurrency

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By 
Kelsey Foster
, 
Growth
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June 29, 2026

Transcribing heavy accents: why ASR struggles, and how model scale helps

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By 
Kelsey Foster
, 
Growth
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September 30, 2026

Medical transcription in Spanish, German, and French: multilingual clinical accuracy

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By 
Kelsey Foster
, 
Growth
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September 30, 2026

Building behavioral health documentation that clinicians trust

Insights & Use Cases
By 
Kelsey Foster
, 
Growth
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September 30, 2026

Veterinary transcription API: handling species, breeds, and vet drug names

Insights & Use Cases
By 
Kelsey Foster
, 
Growth
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September 30, 2026

Wrong drug name in, wrong SOAP note out: error propagation in clinical AI pipelines

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By 
Kelsey Foster
, 
Growth
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September 30, 2026

How we measure medical transcription: MER, and why WER lies to you

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By 
Kelsey Foster
, 
Growth
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September 30, 2026

One parameter, 20% fewer missed entities: a before/after tour of Medical Mode

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By 
Kelsey Foster
, 
Growth
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September 30, 2026

Prompting Claude to build voice agents

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By 
Kelsey Foster
, 
Growth
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September 30, 2026

Build a voice agent without Pipecat or LiveKit

Insights & Use Cases
By 
Kelsey Foster
, 
Growth
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September 30, 2026

Real-time STT latency benchmarks: what "fast enough" means for voice agents

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By 
Kelsey Foster
, 
Growth
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September 30, 2026

Keyterm prompting for real-time accuracy: boosting names, jargon, and product terms

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By 
Kelsey Foster
, 
Growth
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September 30, 2026

Why streaming transcription drifts to English on multilingual audio — and how to fix language steering

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By 
Kelsey Foster
, 
Growth
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September 30, 2026

AssemblyAI vs Deepgram for voice agents

Insights & Use Cases
By 
Kelsey Foster
, 
Growth
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September 30, 2026

Speech-to-speech voice agents: how the architecture works

Insights & Use Cases
By 
Kelsey Foster
, 
Growth
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September 30, 2026

Best platforms for enterprise voice agents

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By 
Kelsey Foster
, 
Growth
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June 9, 2026

How to build a voice agent for IT helpdesk and technical support

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By 
Kelsey Foster
, 
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