Voice Agents and Realtime LLM APIs in 2026 — How They Actually Work

A practical look at building voice agents in 2026. Realtime LLM APIs (OpenAI Realtime, Anthropic, Gemini Live), end-to-end latency, ASR and TTS, interruption handling, and the production patterns from real deployments.

April 30, 2026 · 6 min · 1265 words · Manvendra Rajpoot