Build Smart Voice Agents: Practical Techniques for Designing, Developing, and Deploying Voice AI in Production Environments - Softcover

Charette, Kenneth

 
9798298840132: Build Smart Voice Agents: Practical Techniques for Designing, Developing, and Deploying Voice AI in Production Environments

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This hands-on guide teaches you how to design, build, test, and scale intelligent voice agents that go beyond basic command-and-response. From natural language understanding (NLU) to real-time audio processing and deployment on production infrastructure, this book gives you everything you need to bring voice-first applications to life—intelligently and reliably.

Written by a seasoned AI systems engineer and backed by real-world implementations, this book distills years of production experience into practical, technically accurate guidance. Each chapter reflects the workflows, code structures, and architecture patterns actually used in production voice agents across customer service, smart devices, and enterprise automation.

About the Technology:
Voice agents have moved far beyond gimmicky voice assistants. Today’s voice applications require accurate speech recognition, context-aware dialog management, and tight backend integration. This book shows you how to build that pipeline—from low-latency ASR to memory-driven dialog systems and secure API orchestration. Technologies covered include Whisper, Rasa, Dialogflow, LangChain, FastAPI, Docker, and more.

What’s Inside:

  • Building end-to-end voice pipelines: ASR, NLU, TTS
  • Context tracking, slot filling, and dialog orchestration
  • Testing voice agents with simulated audio and user intents
  • Deploying to cloud, on-prem, or edge environments
  • CI/CD automation, load balancing, and health monitoring
  • Real-world case studies in customer support, smart home, and automotive
  • Privacy, compliance, and model retraining workflows
  • Appendices with tools, CLI tips, architecture templates, and glossary

Who This Book Is For:
Whether you’re a software engineer exploring voice capabilities, a machine learning engineer building NLU components, or a solutions architect deploying enterprise AI agents—this book is designed for you. It is ideal for professionals working with voice-first systems, conversational interfaces, or hybrid LLM + voice automation stacks.

Voice is fast becoming the preferred interface in cars, homes, customer support, and AI copilots. Companies that fail to adopt voice-ready architecture will fall behind in usability, accessibility, and automation. If you want to build voice systems that scale, comply, and truly assist users—you need the right engineering foundation now.

Packed with code examples, real-world insights, battle-tested architectures, and proven workflows, this book offers tremendous long-term value. It is not a surface-level introduction but a full blueprint you can reuse, adapt, and apply across different voice-driven applications.

If you're ready to move beyond toy voice apps and start building intelligent, scalable voice agents that actually work in production, Build Smart Voice Agents is your go-to engineering guide. Grab your copy today and build the future of voice—one command at a time.

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