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Articles tagged Voice

8 articles in this tag.

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|7 min read

Reduce AI Voice Assistant Latency: The 2026 Guide

Voice agents feel slow past 1.5 seconds. Here's where the milliseconds go across STT, LLM, and TTS, and the streaming stack that reaches sub-500ms.

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|6 min read

Hermes Agent TTS Providers: Which One to Pick

Compare all Hermes Agent TTS providers - Edge TTS, ElevenLabs, NeuTTS, OpenAI, and more. Setup steps, quality comparison, and which to choose for your use case.

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|6 min read

Hermes Agent Voice Mode: Talk to Your AI Instead of Typing

A complete guide to Hermes Agent voice features, microphone input in the CLI, spoken replies on Telegram and Discord, and live voice conversations in Discord voice channels.

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|6 min read

How to Set Up Hermes Agent Voice Mode

Set up Hermes Agent voice mode with current CLI, STT, TTS, Telegram, and troubleshooting guidance for a self-hosted runtime.

A smartphone showing a Telegram conversation with voice message bubbles from an AI agent, beside a coffee cup on a morning desk
|6 min read

Hands-Free AI: Hermes Voice + Telegram Workflows

Use Hermes Agent voice on Telegram for hands-free productivity. Real workflows for morning briefings, task capture, and quick lookups while you are on the move.

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|7 min read

Deepgram vs Whisper for AI Voice Agents: Honest Pick

Which STT is right for your AI voice agent? Deepgram Nova-3 and Whisper compared on latency, accuracy, cost, and streaming for real-time bots.

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|8 min read

Hermes Agent + ElevenLabs Voice: Full Setup Guide

Wire ElevenLabs into your Hermes Agent for Telegram voice replies. API key placement, voice_id picking, Multilingual v2 vs Flash v2.5, and the honest tradeoffs.

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|8 min read

Hermes Agent Voice Not Working: Fix It Step by Step

Your Hermes Agent voice mode is silent, refusing audio, or losing files? Walk through the eight failure modes that cause it and the fix for each.