3 posts on Voice.
I put a phone number on the internet and an AI answers it. A memoir of what actually happens on the other end of the line, six months in.
The full boxes and arrows behind my portfolio phone number. LiveKit, Deepgram STT, Groq LLM with three tools, Cartesia TTS, and roughly two cents per minute.
I gave my phone number to an AI. Gemini Live speech-to-speech didn't survive reality. Here is the three-stage pipeline I fell back to, and how it hides 700ms.
