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Original posts, published first on this site. Imported posts live in the [archive](/archive). - [Search](/blog/search) - [AI (53)](/blog/category/ai) - [API Design (13)](/blog/category/api-design) - [APIs (23)](/blog/category/apis) - [Career (11)](/blog/category/career) - [Community (1)](/blog/category/community) - [Developer Experience (53)](/blog/category/developer-experience) - [Developer Relations (6)](/blog/category/developer-relations) - [Engineering (124)](/blog/category/engineering) - [Fun (1)](/blog/category/fun) - [Git (13)](/blog/category/git) - [Industry (32)](/blog/category/industry) - [JavaScript (7)](/blog/category/javascript) - [Latency (2)](/blog/category/latency) - [Models (2)](/blog/category/models) - [News (21)](/blog/category/news) - [Open Source (20)](/blog/category/open-source) - [Opinion (35)](/blog/category/opinion) - [Pricing (1)](/blog/category/pricing) - [Security (11)](/blog/category/security) - [Speech-to-Text (9)](/blog/category/speech-to-text) - [Streaming (4)](/blog/category/streaming) - [Text-to-Speech (29)](/blog/category/text-to-speech) - [TIL (113)](/blog/category/til) - [TypeScript (1)](/blog/category/typescript) - [Voice Agents (7)](/blog/category/voice-agents) - [Voice AI (74)](/blog/category/voice-ai) 273 posts **2026** - [When Your Drive-Thru AI Can't Understand an Accent](/when-your-voice-agent-cant-understand-an-accent) (Jun 2026 · Original · Voice AI): McDonald's killed its AI drive-thru in 2024 because it could not understand an accent. Two years on, the industry is still working out why. - [Three STT Strategies, One Market](/three-stt-strategies-one-market) (Jun 2026 · Original · Voice AI): By June 2026 accuracy stopped deciding the STT market. Multilingual support, turn detection and platform integration became the real differentiators. - [Inside the Voice Agent Pipeline: STT, LLM, and Streaming TTS](/inside-the-voice-agent-pipeline) (Jun 2026 · Original · Voice AI): How STT transcribes audio, an LLM generates responses, and streaming TTS speaks them back. A technical breakdown of the real-time pipeline behind voice agents in - [TIL: Flux natively knows when a caller finishes speaking](/til-flux-turn-detection-deepgram) (Jun 2026 · Original · Voice AI): Deepgram Flux turn detection replaces VAD and silence timeouts with model-native EndOfTurn events. - [Microsoft shipped 7 MAI models and AI hit $580B](/microsoft-mai-stanford-ai-index-580-billion) (Jun 2026 · Original · AI): AI funding hit $581.7B in 2025. Microsoft shipped 7 MAI models. Apple chose privacy at WWDC. Deepgram kept shipping. Stories from a week that shifted AI. - [Sunday roundup: afterthoughts on productivity and pace](/sunday-roundup-afterthoughts-on-productivity-and-pace) (Jun 2026 · Original · Developer Experience): A short Sunday roundup on writing about ADHD and productivity, what Deepgram shipped this week, and what is coming next. - [Six tools that power production voice agents](/six-tools-production-voice-agents) (Jun 2026 · Original · Developer Experience): Building a production voice agent takes more than an API key. Here are six tools I reached for daily at Deepgram, from streaming STT to async Python. - [Testing Voice AI Means Talking to Yourself in Public](/testing-voice-ai-public) (Jun 2026 · Original · Voice AI): Building voice AI means reading test sentences aloud in coffee shops, on trains, and in meetings you forgot to mute. It looks as ridiculous as it sounds. - [I'm not apologising for being productive](/im-not-apologising-for-being-productive) (Jun 2026 · Original · Opinion): Twenty thousand more corrective messages by the age of ten is what an ADHD childhood costs. I am done apologising for being productive. - [When SDKs Write Themselves: Voice API Code Generation](/when-sdks-write-themselves) (Jun 2026 · Original · Developer Experience): Deepgram swapped hand-rolled SDKs for spec-first generation with Fern, so five languages write themselves from one OpenAPI and AsyncAPI source. Page 14 of 28. [← Newer](/blog/page/13) · [Older →](/blog/page/15) [Browse the archive →](/archive) ## Search this site `GET https://lukeocodes.dev/search.json?q=` returns matching posts as JSON, each with its page URL and its markdown URL. Add `&limit=<1-50>` for more than 10. 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