Home / Applied AI / 05. AI Specializations / 00. Realtime Voice Agents Realtime Voice Agents¶ The chapters in this module, in reading order. # Chapter 00 Voice & Realtime AI — The Five-Year-Old Version 01 Five-Second Failure — Slow sounds stupid 02 Audio Processing Basics — Learn the raw signal first 03 Streaming ASR — Teach the ear to listen live 04 Text-to-Speech — Make the voice arrive early 05 Streaming Pipeline — the relay race must keep moving 06 Latency Budgeting — name every millisecond before it embarrasses you 07 Interruption and Barge-In — when the user talks over the assistant 08 End-to-End Voice Models — fewer handoffs, different trade-offs 09 Telephony constraints — phone calls humble shiny demos 10 Evaluation and debugging — voice systems punish vibes 11 Honest admission — voice and realtime AI still fight physics