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Voice agents vs chatbots: an architecture decision, not a feature list

Most teams treat "chatbot or voice agent" as a vendor question. It is really a plumbing question: one system moves text, the other moves audio in real time, and almost every difference in cost, latency and failure mode falls out of that single fact. This is a build-side comparison for people who ha…

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  1. 2026-11-04 14:52 · DEV Community — AI
    Voice agents vs chatbots: an architecture decision, not a feature list

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