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What Is MCP And Why Voice Agents Need It
Every voice agent needs tools—functions it can call to fetch data, update records, or trigger actions. But connecting tools to agents requires custom code for each integration: one adapter for your database, another for your calendar, another for email.
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How To Add Guardrails To Voice Agents
Voice agents talk in real time. That means they can say inappropriate things before you catch them. Traditional content moderation happens after the fact—flagging text that’s already been sent or speech that’s already been spoken. But voice agents need guardrails that work during the conversation, blocking unsafe content before it reaches the user.
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Stream Voice Like You Stream Text
User asks a question. Three seconds of silence. Then the agent speaks.
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Design Tools For Voice, Not Text
Your voice agent makes 8 tool calls to book a flight. Eight.
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Call Any Business With A Voice Agent
Your dentist doesn’t have an API. Your local auto repair shop doesn’t either. Neither does the family-run restaurant down the street.
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Use Meta-Prompts To Build Voice State Machines
Complex voice conversations drift. Users ask three things at once. Agents lose context after five turns. By turn eight, nobody remembers what you were even talking about.
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Replay Voice Agent Conversations Like Code
Debugging voice agents is fundamentally different from debugging text agents.
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Why Voice Agents Use WebRTC In Browsers
Transport layer isn’t something most developers think about. But when you’re building voice agents, it’s the difference between 50ms latency and 500ms latency.
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What The Agents SDK Runtime Does For You
Developers spend way too much time writing plumbing code for voice agents.
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Human-In-The-Loop For Voice Agents
Critical actions shouldn’t execute blindly. When a voice agent is about to spend money, delete data, or commit irrevers
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