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How AI Voice Agents Actually Work

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AI phone agents went from obviously robotic to occasionally indistinguishable from a person in about two years. The reason is not one breakthrough. It is that three separate components got good at the same time, and the engineering problem of connecting them got solved well enough. Here is what is…

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  1. 2026-09-29 04:16 · DEV Community — AI
    How AI Voice Agents Actually Work

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