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Perspectives on voice intelligence

Thoughts on strategy, implementation, and the evolving landscape of voice AI technology.

Rethinking Workforce Strategy in the Age of AI: Why Cutting Jobs May Be the Least Strategic Move

Organizations may achieve higher performance, stronger resilience, and better returns by pairing full-workforce AI enablement with disciplined governance, rather than by pursuing blunt headcount reductions.

Build vs. buy: navigating voice AI vendor decisions

A framework for deciding when to leverage existing platforms and when custom development makes sense.

Conversational AI in customer service: lessons from early adopters

What enterprise deployments reveal about customer acceptance, agent augmentation, and operational impact.

Measuring ROI in voice intelligence deployments

Moving beyond vanity metrics to understand the real business impact of voice AI investments.

Real-time processing: the architecture of responsive voice AI

What it takes to build voice systems that feel instantaneous—and why latency matters more than you think.

Responsible voice AI: building trust through transparency

Practical steps for making voice AI systems understandable, governable, and acceptable to stakeholders.

Speech-to-text accuracy: what the benchmarks don't tell you

Why real-world performance often diverges from leaderboard results, and how to evaluate models properly.

Text-to-speech naturalness: the uncanny valley of synthetic voice

Why some synthetic voices feel effortless and others feel unsettling—and what to do about it.

Voice AI in media: from subtitles to synthetic presenters

How broadcasters and content creators are adopting voice technology across the production pipeline.

The voice AI pilot trap: why proofs of concept fail to scale

Common failure patterns in voice AI pilots—and how to design experiments that survive contact with reality.