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Your Voice Agent is Just a Walkie-Talkie

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Everyone says cascaded voice pipelines are dead and native speech models are the future. Yet production environments are still dominated by STT-LLM-TTS stacks. Reconciling the natural flow of native audio with the elite reasoning of a cascaded agent remains an unsolved systems problem. This talk dissects the brutal technical trade-offs behind that counterintuitive reality. We will break down why your voice agent is still stuck behaving like a walkie-talkie and map out the specific technical roadmap required to build full-duplex AI that actually works.

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Voice AI: when is the "Her" moment? — Neil Zeghidour, CEO, Gradium AI (speaker-match related prior/adjacent AI Engineer video; captions: English auto-captions).

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Your Voice Agent is Just a Walkie-Talkie ## Conference Context - Date/time: 2026-06-29 · 12:05pm-12:25pm - Track/room: Claws & Personal Agents · Track 6 - Speaker(s): Neil Zeghidour - Session type/status: session · confirmed - Track: Claws & Personal Agents - Room: Track 6 - Session type: session - Status: confirmed ## Session Description Everyone says cascaded voice pipelines are dead and native speech models are the future. Yet production environments are still dominated by STT-LLM-TTS stacks. Reconciling the natural flow of native audio with the elite reasoning of a cascaded agent remains an unsolved systems problem. This talk dissects the brutal technical trade-offs behind that counterintuitive reality.

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