https://video.ut0pia.org/videos/watch/c5c23072-c6eb-4055-84db-1ff08d7142df Chat agents dominated 2025. Every product either went AI-first or got left behind. But text-in, text-out is already starting to feel dated. Voice is faster, more accessible, and opens up interaction paradigms that chat just can't touch — phone lines, Zoom calls, screen readers, ambient interfaces. In this talk, Luke Harries from ElevenLabs argues that the next upgrade for every chat agent isn't better prompts or smarter RAG. It's a voice layer. The problem is most teams have already built and tuned their chat agents. They don't want to throw that out. This session shows how ElevenLabs' Voice Engine wraps any existing agent in a few lines — handling turn-taking, speech-to-text, text-to-speech, and emotion-aware interruption detection — without touching the underlying logic. There's a live demo of converting a working chat support agent to voice in a single prompt, plus a look at the client and server SDKs, Shadcn-based UI components, and how tool calling still works through the wrapper. Speaker info: https://www.linkedin.com/in/luke-harries Sun, 10 May 2026 16:43:52 GMT https://validator.w3.org/feed/docs/rss2.html PeerTube - https://video.ut0pia.org https://video.ut0pia.org/lazy-static/avatars/0287a09a-aae7-4840-9843-b416426e7046.webp https://video.ut0pia.org/videos/watch/c5c23072-c6eb-4055-84db-1ff08d7142df All rights reserved, unless otherwise specified in the terms specified at https://video.ut0pia.org/about and potential licenses granted by each content's rightholder.