About the Book
The AI Voice Engineer's Handbook is a practical field guide to designing, building, and operating production-grade AI voice agents. You'll learn how to connect telephony and WebRTC, stream ASR to LLMs, speak naturally with neural TTS, and keep everything fast, safe, and affordable-without hand-waving. It's equal parts architecture, code, and playbooks you can use on Monday. This book is written for practitioners who ship. Every chapter includes runnable snippets, Kubernetes/Compose blueprints, SSML patterns, evaluation suites, cost dashboards, and incident runbooks. You'll see how to set latency budgets, enforce privacy, handle barge-in, and harden guardrails-plus the trade-offs we'd make when money or milliseconds are on the line.
About the Technology:
You'll work across the modern voice stack:
Media & Telephony: SIP, RTP/SRTP, jitter buffers, WebRTC (STUN/TURN), PSTN gateways.
AI Core: Streaming ASR, LLM planning with tool/function calling, RAG, structured outputs.
Speech Synthesis: Neural TTS with SSML, prosody control, chunked synthesis, and predictive pre-rolls.
Platform: Kubernetes autoscaling, tracing (OpenTelemetry), canary rollouts, multi-region failover, cost & compliance controls.
What's Inside:
Production-ready pipelines: Telephony/WebRTC → ASR → LLM/Tools → TTS
Latency engineering: concurrent streaming, backpressure, hedging, graceful degradation
Dialog management: prompt orchestration, interruption-aware planning, determinism controls
Safety & privacy: consent flows, PII redaction, encryption, auditing, policy gates
Tools & RAG: idempotent APIs, caching, grounding, structured enterprise outputs (CRM, ticketing, payments)
Ops: CI/CD, rollouts, incident response, SLOs, postmortems, domain playbooks (support, booking, outbound, internal ops)
Cost control: unit economics, token/latency trade-offs, budget alerting
Appendices packed with templates: prompts, schemas, SSML, Helm/Compose, troubleshooting runbooks
Who this book is for:
Voice/ML Engineers building real-time agents
Backend & Platform Engineers owning infra, scaling, and observability
Product Managers & Tech Leads defining requirements and SLAs
Solutions & DevOps teams deploying multi-tenant, multi-region stacks
Beginner to advanced: if you can deploy a web service and read TypeScript/YAML, you're ready.
Voice interactions are moving from novelty to front-door customer experiences. Teams that master real-time LLM voice this quarter will shape expectations-and win the next RFPs-while others play catch-up. One avoided outage, one halved latency curve, or one trimmed token bill can pay for the book many times over. The included templates, prompts, policies, and Helm/Compose files save weeks of trial-and-error and reduce risk on every release.
Build the voice agent your customers deserve. Grab your copy of The AI Voice Engineer's Handbook today and ship a fast, safe, and scalable real-time voice system-confidently and on schedule.
