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AI Voice Agents and The State of The Art w/ Cartesia

Hosted by Kiriti & Aish and Zubin Pratap & Ashcon Partovi

146 students

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What you'll learn

Where voice AI actually stands in 2026

What the current generation of speech models can and cannot do.

See it running live

A walkthrough of Cartesia's models in the playground, from voice cloning through real time generation.

What changes when latency collapses

Which product ideas become viable once speech generation is genuinely real time, and which still are not.

Ask the people building it

Open Q&A with Cartesia's DevRel and product leads on architecture choices, tradeoffs, and what is coming next.

Why this topic matters

Voice models went from robotic and slow to real time and near human in about two years. Knowing what is genuinely possible today, and what is still a research problem, is the difference between a voice agent people talk to and one they hang up on.

You'll learn from

Kiriti & Aish

AI practitioners with combined 20+ years of experience

Aishwarya Naresh Reganti is the founder and CEO of LevelUp Labs, a human-first AI startup that helps develop and deploy production-ready generative AI solutions for mid to large enterprise clients. With over 9 years of experience in machine learning, she has published more than 35 research papers at top-tier AI conferences, including NeurIPS, AAAI, and CVPR.

Kiriti Badam is a member of the technical staff at OpenAI Codex, with over a decade of experience designing high-impact enterprise AI systems. He specializes in AI-centric infrastructure, with deep expertise in large-scale compute, data engineering, and storage systems.

Zubin Pratap & Ashcon Partovi

Cartesia

Zubin heads Developer Relations & Experience at Cartesia.ai, a voice AI research lab. He previously headed DevRel engineering at Chainlink Labs, and was a software engineer at Google and a corporate lawyer.

Ashcon is a tokenmaxxer on Cartesia's product team, focused on developer experience and growth. Previously, he shipped developer products at Bun and Cloudflare.

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