😺 Watch LIVE NOW: Building AI Voice Agents w/ LiveKit's Ben Cherry

The Neuron · Corey Noles · 2026-05-21

The Neuron newsletter promotes a live stream with LiveKit's Ben Cherry demonstrating how to build production-ready real-time AI voice agents and explaining the technical challenges of latency, interruptions, and turn-taking.

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Voice AI: Infrastructure, Privacy Risks, and New Interaction Paradigms

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Topics: voice-aiai-agentsreal-time-aideveloper-tools

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Real-time voice AI is significantly more complex than attaching a microphone to a standard chat interface.
Latency, interruptions, audio quality, and turn-taking are the key technical challenges separating polished demos from production-ready voice agents.
LiveKit provides infrastructure for developers building real-time AI voice and multimodal agents.

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Why real-time voice AI is so much harder than 'ChatGPT with a microphone'

What separates a polished demo from a production-ready voice agent