Building Live Voice Agents: Deploying Real-Time Multimodal AI Systems to Production

Create AI agents that listen, respond aloud, handle interruptions, and use visual context as a conversation unfolds. Building Live Voice Agents takes you from agent fundamentals to architecting live, multimodal, multi-agent systems, focusing on the difficult leap from proof of concept to production.

Start by working directly with foundation models to understand the core voice interaction loop, then use agent frameworks to structure tools, state, and coordination. Connect specialist agents and external tools through open interoperability protocols, and learn how architectural choices affect responsiveness, reliability, and user experience. Written by industry practitioners, this book combines examples and reference architectures with the evaluation, security, governance, and deployment practices needed to operate live agents at enterprise scale.
• Build low-latency voice interactions with streaming audio, turn-taking, interruption handling, and visual context
• Design clear boundaries between browser interfaces, backend services, tools, and specialist agents
• Apply AgentOps practices to evaluate, test, secure, govern, and deploy live multimodal systems