Kiriti & Aish
Zubin Pratap & Ashcon Partovi
Free Lesson

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

Part of The AI Builders Summit

60 min
Sep 10, 2026 8:00 PM

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.

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Kiriti & Aish

Kiriti & Aish

AI practitioners with combined 20+ years of experience

Worked/Taught At
MIT
University of Oxford
Amazon Web Services
Microsoft
Zubin Pratap & Ashcon Partovi

Zubin Pratap & Ashcon Partovi

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