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The Audio Gateway: The Production Pattern for Real-Time Voice AI
Split voice AI into a media plane that owns the real-time audio path and a business plane that owns meaning, joined by a small typed gRPC contract.
Python Is Lying to You: Async Pitfalls in Real-Time Audio Pipelines
Why async def doesn’t mean non-blocking: CPU-bound guardrails, blocking loggers, and GIL contention that degrade production voice AI audio, and the fixes.
Voice AI: Fast and Dumb or Slow and Smart — Why Not Fast and Smart?
The Responder-Thinker pattern for production voice AI: a realtime model that stays present, specialist thinkers that get it right, backend mediation, and local VAD.