[entrope]

I think you're not really engaging with his point, which is that RTC is a poor fit for communicating with an AI agent. I didn't read the blog as claiming that WebRTC is bad for what it is, only that it's a (very) poor choice for a voice-to-AI application.

[thutch76]

That's fair. My attention wanted and I lost the plot.

However, I don't think having an agent on one side necessarily changes anything. Network problems are not predictable, particularly on mobile, so the human is still very likely to experience a poor auditory experience on a tcp connection.

[echoangle]

The difference is that the agent doesn’t run in realtime. If 20 packets are lost and resent, the agent can still process them almost instantly and reply, in contrast to a human. Only the direction from the agent to the human needs to be realtime.

[ricardobeat]

Only if you expect to interact with the agent in a turn-taking format, with (possible) pauses between every turn.

ChatGPT’s voice mode is like speaking to someone in real time on a voice call, not input -> output.