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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** - [Sunday roundup: debugging habits and multilingual speech](/sunday-roundup-may-3-2026) (May 2026 · Original · Voice AI): One post on voice AI debugging habits, plus Flux going multilingual, AssemblyAI's Voice Agent API and Twilio Conversation Relay, from early May 2026. - [5 habits that reduce voice AI debugging](/5-habits-voice-ai-debugging) (May 2026 · Original · Engineering): Most voice AI debugging time goes to problems that follow a pattern. Here are five habits I built at Deepgram that catch those patterns before they become incidents. - [Friday fun: bat is cat with syntax highlighting](/bat-is-cat-with-syntax-highlighting) (May 2026 · Original · TIL): bat shows file contents with syntax highlighting, line numbers, and a pager. It replaces cat with the same muscle memory and a lot more useful output. - [The invisible work of voice AI SDKs](/invisible-work-voice-ai-sdks) (Apr 2026 · Original · Developer Experience): Four years of maintaining voice AI SDKs across half a dozen languages. The work that never makes the changelog. - [How streaming speech recognition works](/how-streaming-speech-recognition-works) (Apr 2026 · Original · Engineering): Streaming speech-to-text sends audio chunks over WebSocket. Acoustic models, language models, and decoders explain the latency-accuracy tradeoff. - [TIL: ffprobe for audio file inspection](/til-ffprobe-audio-inspection) (Apr 2026 · Original · TIL): ffprobe shows sample rate, channels, duration, and codec of any audio file. Check audio format before sending it to a speech-to-text API. - [Two faces of AI progress](/two-faces-of-ai-progress) (Apr 2026 · Original · AI): OpenAI shipped persistent workspace agents; Anthropic locked away Mythos 5. Two faces of AI in one week, and two answers to what shipping means. - [Sunday roundup: starting fresh, April 26](/sunday-roundup-april-26-2026) (Apr 2026 · Original · Developer Experience): Daily publishing starts here. The Sunday roundup for April 26: OpenAI workspace agents, Anthropic Mythos 5, and what was shipping inside Deepgram. - [5 questions I ask before integrating a streaming API](/5-questions-streaming-api-integration) (Apr 2026 · Original · Developer Experience): Connection drops, backpressure, and wire formats. Five questions I ask every streaming API before building on it, learned from voice AI integrations. - [Friday fun: generating test tones for voice AI pipelines](/friday-fun-generating-test-tones-voice-ai) (Apr 2026 · Original · TIL): sox synth generates test audio files from scratch at any sample rate and duration. No microphone needed for speech API development. Page 18 of 28. [← Newer](/blog/page/17) · [Older →](/blog/page/19) [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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