Voice Agents: tech sessions and community events, 10k dollars in free credits
4 Weeks
·Cohort-based Course
Learn about core technologies and best practices for realtime, conversational AI. Explore models and tools with hands-on help from experts.
This course is popular
50+ people enrolled last week.
Voice Agents: tech sessions and community events, 10k dollars in free credits
4 Weeks
·Cohort-based Course
Learn about core technologies and best practices for realtime, conversational AI. Explore models and tools with hands-on help from experts.
This course is popular
50+ people enrolled last week.
Hosted by
Kwindla Hultman Kramer and swyx
Brought to you by the architect of Pipecat and the inventor of "AI Engineer."
Course overview
Understand the core technologies driving voice AI today
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Four weeks of presentations and hands-on sessions with industry leaders in realtime AI, including:
Aidan Hornsby (Layercode). Batuhan Taskaya (fal). Brooke Hopkins (Coval). Charles Frye (Modal). Damien Tanner (Layercode). Dominik Kundel (OpenAI). Elizabeth Trykin (Vapi). Freddy Boulton (Hugging Face). Hamel H. (Parlance Labs). Hasssaan Raza (Tavus). Ian Cairns (Freeplay). Jean-Louis Quéguiner (Gladia). Joe Heitzeberg (AI Tinkerers). Jordan Dearsley (Vapi). Karan Goel (Cartesia). Kyle Corbitt (OpenPipe). Lily Clifford (Rime Labs). Mahmoud Felfel (PlayAI). Michael Louis (Cerebrium). Natalie Rutgers (Deepgram). Paige Bailey (Google DeepMind). Philip Kiely (Baseten). Prince Canuma (MLX hacker). Quinn Favret (Tavus). Rajiv Ayyangar (Product Hunt). Raymond Thai (Fireworks AI). Sam Stowers (Weights & Biases). Shrestha Basu Mallick (Google DeepMind). Sean DuBois (OpenAI). swyx (Latent Space). Taranjeet Singh (mem0). Vaibhav Srivastav (Hugging Face). Zach Koch (Fixie.ai).
Hear from people training models, designing APIs, and shipping AI agents at scale in production. Learn about the current state-of-the-art in voice AI for use cases like:
➡️ Customer support agents
➡️ Outbound agents that quality sales leads
➡️ Agents that answer the phone for restaurants, healthcare providers, and other small businesses
➡️ Games and social experiences
1. Core technology and tooling for voice agents
➡️ Using transcription models, language models, and voice models
➡️ Minimizing latency
➡️ Managing multimodal context
➡️ Turn detection and interruption handling
➡️ Audio codecs, telephony integration, and network transport
➡️ Voice AI evals
➡️ Scripting and workflows
➡️ Content guardrails
➡️ Retrieval augmented generation and conversation memory
➡️ Function calling for realtime AI, including how to handle async, parallel, and composite function calls
2. Deploying agents to production
➡️ Hosting
➡️ Monitoring and observability
3. Plus special sections on
➡️ Realtime video
➡️ Voice-enabled programming environments
Listen to the Latent Space podcast about the course.
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Who is this course for
01
You are an AI Engineer working on a conversational voice project.
02
You are a technical manager adding AI Voice to your organization's products.
03
You develop models and API and are exploring how to expand your realtime capabilities.
What you’ll get out of this course
Understand the landscape of models and tools people are using to deploy voice agents to production, today.
Hear from labs developing the next generation of transcription, LLM, voice, and speech-to-speech models.
Build and deploy your own voice AI agent.
Attend hands-on workshops with developer relations engineers from the leading labs and infrastructure providers.
Explore the emerging areas of realtime conversational video and voice-enabled programming tools.
This course includes
28 interactive live sessions
Lifetime access to course materials
2 in-depth lessons
Direct access to instructor
Projects to apply learnings
Guided feedback & reflection
Private community of peers
Course certificate upon completion
Maven Satisfaction Guarantee
This course is backed by Maven’s guarantee. You can receive a full refund within 14 days after the course ends, provided you meet the completion criteria in our refund policy.
Voice Agents: tech sessions and community events, 10k dollars in free credits
Course syllabus
Week 1
An overview of the voice AI landscape
May
7
Overview of the Voice AI Landscape
May
8
Deploying to production: hosting, infrastructure, telephony
Week 2
Building voice agents for production
May
14
AI Evals
May
15
Scripting and workflows
May
12
Optional: Gladia office hours
May
12
Optional: Modal office hours
May
13
Optional: Cartesia office hours
May
13
Optional: Vapi office hours
May
13
Optional: Cerebrium office hours
May
14
Optional: Baseten office hours
May
16
Optional: Rime Labs office hours
May
16
Optional: Fine-tuning LLMs — hosted by Openpipe
May
16
Optional: PlayAI office hours
Week 3
Office hours
May
19
Optional: Layercode office hours
May
20
Optional: Coval office hours
May
20
Optional: Firework office hours
May
23
Optional: Building global community — AI Tinkerers and Product Hunt
May
23
Optional: WebRTC, FastRTC, and realtime networking
May
23
Optional: OpenAI office hours
Week 4
Up next
May
27
Web and native mobile apps
May
27
Local models and hybrid architectures
May
27
Optional: Weights & Biases Weave office hours
May
28
Programming with voice
May
28
Optional: Freeplay office hours
May
28
Optional: Deepgram office hours
May
29
Optional: Google Gemini office hours
May
29
Optional: Fal office hours
May
29
Optional: Conversational video — hosted by Tavus
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Voice Agents: tech sessions and community events, 10k dollars in free credits
Cohort 1
$500
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Course schedule
1 - 4 hours per week
Live Presentations
12:00pm - 1:00pm EST
Live presentations from people training models, developing APIs and tools, and shipping voice agents to production.
Office Hours
Hands-on sessions and Q&A opportunities with technical engineers from leading labs, infrastructure companies, and startups making interesting new tools.
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Voice Agents: tech sessions and community events, 10k dollars in free credits
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