Why Voice AI Is More Than Latency: AssemblyAI on Building Production Speech Systems
In this episode of the Convo AI World Podcast, Hermes Frangoudis sits down with Luka Chkhetiani from AssemblyAI to unpack what it takes to build reliable speech AI for real-world applications. Luka shares how AssemblyAI's mission evolved from making speech recognition accessible to developers into building robust models for real-time transcription, voice agents, conversational intelligence, and messy production environments. The conversation explores why latency alone is the wrong obsession, how turn-to-turn responsiveness changes the user experience, why reliability is now one of the hardest…
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