THE PYAI JOURNAL
Good conversations.
Worth thinking about.
Notes from the bench
Compliance guides you can take into a real call, and the engineering decisions behind the models.
Compliance
What the law actually requires when an AI agent calls or records someone, and how to prove every call complied. Educational, not legal advice.
AI Call Agent Compliance & Audit: The Evidence Field Guide
Build an evidence trail from real conversations to human review. Explore worked examples, test coverage assumptions, and download eight templates your team can use today.
Voice AI compliance in 2026: the complete, plain-English guide
The whole compliance picture for AI phone agents in one place: what each law wants, why AI multiplies the risk, and how to prove you followed the rules on every single call.
Do AI calling agents need consent? TCPA, explained simply
The FCC put AI voices squarely under the TCPA. Here's who needs consent, what 'prior express written consent' actually means, and how to prove you had it.
Call recording compliance for Zoom, Google Meet, and phone calls
Recording rules follow the conversation, not the phone line. Here's one-party vs two-party consent in plain English, and why your Zoom and Meet recordings are in scope too.
The real cost of a TCPA violation, in dollars per call
$500-$1,500 per call sounds small until you multiply by an AI dialer's volume. Here's the arithmetic of non-compliance across TCPA, HIPAA, and recording laws.
How to make your AI voice agent compliant in an afternoon
From risky to defensible in five steps: capture consent, disclose, redact sensitive data, honor opt-outs, and keep an audit trail, without ripping out your phone or meeting stack.
Engineering
The decisions, trade-offs, and physics behind PyAI, telephony audio, realtime latency, and developer experience.
From zero to a running voice app in one command
The fastest path from 'I want to try PyAI' to a running app: one command, no clone, no setup. Plus how we keep every example from ever rotting.
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.
Compliance content is educational and not legal advice. We cite primary sources on every page; confirm currency with counsel.
QUESTIONS, ANSWERED
A few useful answers.
What does the PyAI journal cover?
The journal covers voice AI engineering, product decisions and practical compliance workflows. Articles include the context, examples and supporting references needed to explore the subject further.
Does a compliance article replace legal advice?
No. Compliance articles are educational. They link to primary sources and include review context; confirm the current requirements for your own workflow with counsel.
Where can I find the audit templates?
The AI Call Agent Compliance & Audit Field Guide links to eight editable templates and explains how to use them in a bounded review workflow.
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