Voice Agents

Evaluation and comparison of realtime voice agent platforms that combine speech recognition, LLM reasoning, and speech synthesis into a conversational pipeline.

5 articles

How we built a personal meeting assistant using Deepgram

We built Otto, a meeting assistant that listens to any call and answers out loud when addressed by name. Here's how we used Deepgram's Nova-3 transcription and Aura voices to make it work in real time.

ArticlesJune 10, 20266 min read

Best Realtime Voice Agent in 2026

We tested the leading realtime voice agent APIs head to head.

ArticlesMay 13, 202610 min read

Grok TTS vs OpenAI: A quick head to head

A practical blind comparison of xAI's Grok TTS and OpenAI's gpt-realtime-2 voice model across six real-world scenarios.

ComparisonsMay 8, 20268 min read

Build you a personal assistant agent for fun and profit

An opinionated guide to building your own always-on personal AI assistant using Pi, OpenCode Go, Telegram, Resend, Hetzner, Tailscale, GitHub, and Nginx.

GuidesMay 5, 202620 min read

Smallest.ai vs ElevenLabs: Which Voice AI Platform Wins in 2026?

I put ElevenLabs and Smallest.ai head-to-head across TTS voice quality, realtime voice agents, voice cloning, latency, and cost.

ComparisonsApril 21, 202616 min read