Convo AI World

Explore voice-first conversational AI through honest conversations with practitioners. Hear from AI builders, infra engineers, product strategists, and more for the latest insights on what it takes to build best-in-class conversational AI experiences.Check out video episodes and subscribe to the Convo AI Newsletter at convoai.world

Convo AI World is a technology podcast hosted by Agora, with 29 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80. PitchCentric scores this show on Booking Probability, Listen Score, and live audience signals refreshed every 24 hours.

Agora hosts Convo AI World, a technology show with 29 episodes published.

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  How to Catch AI failures

  May 28, 202644 minS0

  In this episode, host Hermes Frangoudis interviews Faraz Siddiqi, co-founder and CTO of Bluejay, about testing and monitoring voice AI agents. Faraz explains how Bluejay uses "digital humans" synthetic customers with accents, background noise, and even emotions to run hundreds of parallel simulations. What used to take 10–12 hours of manual calling to test 200 menu items now takes just five minutes, letting you grab coffee while Bluejay finds failures before real users hit them. He shares why latency over 1.5 seconds breaks trust, how a transcription error turned "Dr. Pham" into "Dr. Fan," and why founders should listen to every call manually be...

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  Speech to Text Masterclass: The Tech Behind the Modern Voice Pipeline

  May 14, 202657 minS0

  In this special montage episode of the Convo AI World Podcast, host Hermes Frangoudis brings together leading researchers and founders from across the speech‑to‑text space to unpack the voice pipeline from the ground up. The conversation covers how cascading architectures stack up against real‑time speech‑to‑speech systems, why Voice Activity Detection acts as the critical traffic controller, and how enterprises can eliminate model pathologies like hallucinations and omissions through modular “Lego block” integration. Guests from Deepgram, Agora, Soniox, and Rime share hard‑won lessons on achieving near‑native accuracy across 60 languages with self‑supervised learning, taming unpredictable pronun...

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  The Hidden Complexities of Enterprise Voice

  Apr 16, 202644 minS0

  In this episode, host Rishi Ahluwalia interviews Ankur Edkie, CEO of Murf AI, about the hidden complexities of scaling enterprise voice AI. Ankur discusses the journey from pre-ChatGPT text-to-speech to building hyper-efficient, human-like voice systems. He unpacks why voice demos feel magical, but production deployments often fail, highlighting the critical gap between lab settings and the variability of real-world acoustics and devices. The conversation covers the challenges of the cascading stack (ASR, LLM, TTS), the importance of turn-taking and latency consistency over raw speed, and Murf’s "compute acquisition" approach with the Falcon architecture that drives down costs and enables gl...

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  Why Developers Are Abandoning GPU Farms for APIs

  Apr 9, 202630 minS0

  In this episode, host Derek interviews Zeyi, Founder & CEO of WaveSpeedAI, about simplifying AI media generation. Zeyi explains how WaveSpeed provides a unified, high-concurrency API that lets developers easily switch between models like Flux and Wan without managing complex GPU infrastructure. He highlights unique offerings like the 10-minute lip-sync tool InfiniteTalk and video extending, discusses regional preferences in AI-generated faces, and shares cost-saving strategies like low-res generation with upscaling. The episode wraps with Zeyi's advice for AI builders: leverage AI coding tools, structure projects wisely, and use API platforms instead of optimizing models from scratch. Check out video episodes and...

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  99% Isn’t Enough: How Speechmatics Is Fixing ASR

  Apr 2, 202646 minS0

  In this episode of the Convo AI World Podcast, host Hermes interviews Ricardo Herreros Symons from Speechmatics to explore the evolving landscape of speech recognition and its role as the essential gateway to "LLM magic". The conversation delves into the technical hurdles that prevent speech from being a truly "solved" problem—such as background noise, diverse accents, and specialized terminology—and why Speechmatics prioritizes diarization as a critical requirement for security and accuracy in high-stakes industries like healthcare and finance. Check out video episodes and subscribe to the Convo AI Newsletter at podcast.convoai.world

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