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11 articles

26 Feb 2026 · 13 min read

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Production Voice AI for Research at Scale: Zombie Agents, Pre-Warming, and the 5 Bugs That Cost Us Weeks (Part 2 of 8)

Part 2 of 6 — The production pain points nobody warns you about: zombie agents, metadata latency, pre-warming for 1-2s time-to-first-voice, VAD tuning for research respondents, and provider quirks.

24 Feb 2026 · 11 min read

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Production Voice AI for Research at Scale: The Architecture Nobody Warns You About (Part 1 of 8)

Part 1 of 6 — Why research interviews need server-side voice agents, the three-tier architecture, room metadata as configuration transport, and the 100-500ms propagation latency nobody tells you about.