Realtime Voice Agents with Frontier Intelligence — Bohan Li, EliseAI
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A voice AI agentAn AI system that doesn't just answer once but works toward a goal in a loop — taking actions, reading the results, and deciding what to do next.Full definition → can start a familiar opening phrase while the rest of its response is still being generated. EliseAI's engineering talk describes checking the model's emerging words against previously generated audio. When an opening matches, the system plays the cached recording immediately.
The speech generator still receives the complete sentence so it can produce natural intonation across it. The system suppresses the overlapping opening from that fresh audio and joins the remainder to the cached portion. The approach aims to shorten the initial silence on calls whose openings repeat, while preserving a coherent spoken sentence.
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AI agent — An AI system that doesn't just answer once but works toward a goal in a loop — taking actions, reading the results, and deciding what to do next.
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