--- title: Writing — page 16 — Luke Oliff description: Page 16 of posts on developer relations, voice AI and developer experience. canonical: https://lukeocodes.dev/blog/page/16 type: website locale: en_GB robots: noindex, follow feed: https://lukeocodes.dev/rss.xml search: https://lukeocodes.dev/search.json?q={query} schema: - "@context": https://schema.org "@graph": - "@type": WebSite "@id": https://lukeocodes.dev/#website url: https://lukeocodes.dev name: Luke Oliff alternateName: lukeocodes inLanguage: en publisher: "@id": https://lukeocodes.dev/authors/luke#person description: Personal blog and writing by Luke Oliff — developer relations, voice AI, developer experience. potentialAction: - "@type": SearchAction target: "@type": EntryPoint urlTemplate: https://lukeocodes.dev/blog/search?q={search_term_string} query-input: required name=search_term_string - "@type": Person "@id": https://lukeocodes.dev/authors/luke#person name: Luke Oliff url: https://lukeocodes.dev/authors/luke description: Engineer and developer relations leader. 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Original posts, published first on this site. 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The roundup for May 2026. - [5 API design decisions that shape voice AI dev experience](/5-api-design-decisions-shape-voice-ai-devx) (May 2026 · Original · Developer Experience): Error payloads, streaming edge cases, and latency limits all shape how developers interact with voice APIs. Here are five patterns I have seen matter most. - [Testing 10 languages with one macOS command](/testing-10-languages-macos-say) (May 2026 · Original · TIL): The macOS say command generates speech in ten languages. I used it to test a multilingual STT model without installing any audio tooling. - [Five SDKs, one streaming API: a maintenance retrospective](/five-sdks-one-streaming-api-maintenance-retrospective) (May 2026 · Original · Developer Experience): Maintaining five SDKs for one streaming voice API taught me things about developer experience that no spec review ever could. Here is what I learned. - [What nobody tells you about audio in speech-to-text](/what-nobody-tells-you-about-audio-speech-to-text) (May 2026 · Original · Developer Experience): Production speech-to-text lives or dies on the audio: sample rate, encoding, channel mixing, chunk size. The docs skip it, so here is what matters. - [TIL: Testing speech-to-text with curl](/til-stt-curl) (May 2026 · Original · TIL): One curl command transcribes audio through any REST-based STT API. No SDK, no imports, just your audio file and an API key. - [Voice AI APIs Converged Into Single-Call Platforms](/voice-ai-apis-single-call-platform) (May 2026 · Original · Voice AI): The week of May 11, 2026, three separate announcements pushed voice AI from multi-service pipelines toward unified single-call APIs. - [Sunday roundup: four posts on audio debugging and work culture](/sunday-roundup-may-11-16-2026) (May 2026 · Original · Developer Experience): Four posts from the week of May 11 in one Sunday roundup: afinfo, speaker diarization, Slack culture on remote teams, and ffmpeg for voice AI. - [5 SDK anti-patterns I keep fixing in voice AI](/5-sdk-anti-patterns-voice-ai) (May 2026 · Original · Developer Experience): Maintaining SDKs across five languages taught me the same mistakes appear every time. Here are the five patterns I'd redesign first, and why they matter for voice - [ffmpeg taught me more about voice AI than the docs did](/ffmpeg-voice-ai-debugger) (May 2026 · Original · Developer Experience): The first time I debugged a voice AI integration, ffmpeg saved me. It is still the most useful tool in my kit, and it is not even designed for voice. Page 16 of 28. [← Newer](/blog/page/15) · [Older →](/blog/page/17) [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. How it works: [/blog/search](https://lukeocodes.dev/blog/search.md). ```sh curl "https://lukeocodes.dev/search.json?q=developer+relations" ``` --- © 2026 Luke Oliff. 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