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May 2, 2026 · Artificial Intelligence

How to Add Real‑Time Speech Recognition and Streaming TTS to Your AI Agent

This guide walks through choosing the right voice‑agent architecture, implementing streaming ASR with WebSocket, triggering sentence‑by‑sentence TTS, wiring the three layers together via async generators, optimizing latency to under a second, and avoiding common pitfalls such as missing VAD and checkpoint persistence.