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Conversational Systems Track

Real-Time Voice AI and Conversational Agent Engineering

Engineer low-latency voice sessions across WebRTC, SIP, streaming speech, turn-taking, interruption, tools, RAG, handoff, evaluation, consent, safety, scaling, and incident operations.

Advanced · conversational systems
About 290 min reading
49 authored sections

Before you start: HTTP, asynchronous events, cancellation, and the basic model request path.

Plan for 6–10 hours of hands-on work in addition to reading. This is an initial estimate; setup and extensions vary.

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Course Contract: Engineer the Conversation, Not a Talking Demo

A voice agent is a realtime media system, an AI application, and an authority boundary at once.

Preview 2

Begin with Sound as a Time-Varying Signal

Speech models receive sampled pressure changes, not words.

Preview 3

See the Complete Voice System Stack

The model is one dependency inside capture, media, state, action, and policy layers.

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Complete curriculum

49 sections · 5 parts + voice systems studio

Course orientation

  1. Course ContractFree

Part 1 · Hear and Transport

  1. Audio PhysicsFree
  2. Sampling and FramesCourse Pass
  3. Codecs and QualityCourse Pass
  4. Voice StackFree
  5. Transport ChoiceCourse Pass
  6. WebRTCCourse Pass
  7. SIP and TelephonyCourse Pass
  8. Session ArchitectureCourse Pass

Part 2 · Understand and Speak

  1. Streaming ASRCourse Pass
  2. Streaming TTSCourse Pass
  3. Speech-to-SpeechCourse Pass
  4. Language and AccentCourse Pass
  5. Turn DetectionCourse Pass
  6. Barge-InCourse Pass
  7. Session StateCourse Pass
  8. Latency BudgetCourse Pass
  9. Streaming and BackpressureCourse Pass
  10. Conversation DesignCourse Pass

Part 3 · Act with Authority

  1. ToolsCourse Pass
  2. Voice RAGCourse Pass
  3. MemoryCourse Pass
  4. Human HandoffCourse Pass
  5. Channel OperationsCourse Pass
  6. Identity and ConsentCourse Pass
  7. Safety and AuthorityCourse Pass
  8. Privacy and RetentionCourse Pass
  9. Cloning and FraudCourse Pass

Part 4 · Prove and Operate

  1. Evaluation ArchitectureCourse Pass
  2. Speech MetricsCourse Pass
  3. Conversation MetricsCourse Pass
  4. Test CorpusCourse Pass
  5. ObservabilityCourse Pass
  6. CapacityCourse Pass
  7. Scaling and RoutingCourse Pass
  8. ResilienceCourse Pass
  9. ReleaseCourse Pass
  10. Incident ReviewCourse Pass
  11. Worked CaseCourse Pass

Part 5 · Architect and Prove

  1. CapstoneCourse Pass
  2. Decision RecordCourse Pass

Voice Systems Studio

  1. Latency LabCourse Pass
  2. Turn-Taking LabCourse Pass
  3. Release Gate LabCourse Pass
  4. Challenge · Barge-in PlayoutCourse Pass
  5. AssessmentCourse Pass
  6. Interview QuestionsCourse Pass
  7. Cheat SheetCourse Pass
  8. ReferencesCourse Pass