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PSA if you're shipping a Vapi web voice agent: start() resolves successfully even when the mic is blocked

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Spent a while chasing this one and it seems worth sharing, because the failure mode is completely invisible. Setup: voice agent embedded on a site via the Vapi web SDK. Button on the page, user clicks, agent picks up. I had analytics on the button so I could see how many people were engaging. Analy…

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  1. 2026-09-01 08:30 · r/AI_Agents
    PSA if you're shipping a Vapi web voice agent: start() resolves successfully even when the mic is blocked

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