Engineering
How we build voice AI for the phone.
The decisions, trade-offs, and physics behind PyAI - telephony audio, realtime latency, and the architecture under our speech models.
Engineering 6 min read
Why we built our speech model for 8 kHz — and why most voice AI fails on a real phone call
A phone line throws away half the audio. Models trained on studio sound demo great and crumble on real calls. Here's the physics, and what we did about it.
June 20, 2026Read
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