Voice AI Agents
topic on 3 shows · 4 statements across 3 episodes
the Y Combinator Startup Podcast 
the Startup Ideas Podcast 
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4 statements about Voice AI Agents, every show
Isenberg: Best Voice AI Architecture Uses Hybrid Human Hand-Offs for Sales
“You don't need to go full on a hundred percent voice AI agent. You can have some voice AI agents help you and that'll get your cost down and help you scale. And then when you actually want to do the sale or you want more of a white glove experience, that's whe…”
Isenberg: Trade contractors will pay $500–$800 monthly for AI voice agents
“Now, how much could you charge? I don't know, a few hundred dollars a month, maybe 800 dollars, 500 dollars. Tough to say exactly, but I do think that they'd be willing to pay for it and on a monthly basis.”
Hu: Voice AI Startups Meta-Prompt with Frontier Models Before Distillation
“I think that's a common pattern sometimes for companies when they need to get responses from elements, elements in their product a lot quicker. They do the meta-prompting with a bigger, beefier model, any of the, I don't know, hundreds of billions of parameter…”
D'Sa: 75-80% of LiveKit cloud signups are building voice AI agents
“We're doing like thousands and thousands, many, several thousands of like signups to the cloud product or commercial product. And most of those, the vast majority are startups and growing companies. And out of those, probably around 75% or so, 80% of those sig…”