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Designing a Transactional Voice Agent for Latency, Safety, and Human Handoff

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A production voice agent has to do more than understand a request. It must respond within the rhythm of a phone conversation, coordinate live APIs, protect sensitive data, and transfer the caller without losing context when automation reaches its limit. In our travel booking implementation, that me…

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  1. 2026-09-17 19:51 · DEV Community — AI
    Designing a Transactional Voice Agent for Latency, Safety, and Human Handoff

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