7 Things You Can Build With a Single WebSocket (Using AssemblyAI’s Voice Agent API)

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Most voice AI architectures look like a Rube Goldberg machine. You pipe audio into a speech-to-text service, feed the transcript to an LLM, send the LLM’s reply to a text-to-speech engine, then duct-tape the audio back to the user. Each hop adds latency, failure modes, and billing dashboards. AssemblyAI’s Voice Agent API collapses all of that into one WebSocket connection