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Voice Agents in Production: Whisper + Claude + ElevenLabs

Intensive technical training for developers who want to master the complete stack of a production voice agent: Whisper for speech recognition, Claude for conversational orchestration, and ElevenLabs for natural voice synthesis. From streaming architecture to robust error handling, you'll deploy a voice agent with <2s latency and production quality. Based on Talki's real architecture (12,000+ voice interactions/month).

Duration
3 days
Level
Advanced
Price
9.99 EUR/month (all courses included)
Max group
12 participants

What you will learn

+Design complete voice pipeline architecture (STT → LLM → TTS)
+Implement Whisper (API and local) with multi-language support
+Orchestrate natural conversations with Claude streaming
+Integrate ElevenLabs TTS with audio streaming for <500ms latency
+Optimize end-to-end latency to achieve <2s (P95)
+Handle errors, fallbacks, and production resilience
+Calculate and optimize costs (API vs self-hosted)
+Deploy with monitoring, alerts, and dashboards

Course program

Module 1: Voice Pipeline Architecture and Technical Choices

3h
  • The three components of a voice pipeline (STT, LLM, TTS)
  • Streaming vs Batch: impact on perceived latency
  • Whisper: Cloud API vs local deployment (ROI calculation)
  • Reference architecture: Talki Voice Agent

Module 2: STT Pipeline Implementation with Whisper

3h
  • Whisper API: configuration, multi-language, auto-detection
  • Local Whisper: faster-whisper, quantization, GPU optimization
  • Audio formats: WAV, WebM, MP3 - conversion and validation
  • Workshop: complete STT with API → local fallback

Module 3: Conversational Orchestration with Claude

3h30
  • Prompt engineering for natural voice conversations
  • Claude streaming: Server-Sent Events (SSE) and WebSockets
  • Conversational context management with DynamoDB
  • Workshop: voice chatbot with persistent history

Module 4: Voice Synthesis with ElevenLabs

3h
  • ElevenLabs API: voices, stability, similarity boost
  • TTS streaming: WebSocket audio chunks and AudioContext
  • Alternatives: Google Cloud TTS, AWS Polly, Azure Speech
  • Workshop: streaming TTS with client-side audio queue

Module 5: End-to-End Latency Optimization

3h
  • Latency measurement: P50, P95, P99 per component
  • Optimization techniques: caching, pre-warming, concurrency
  • Profiling and bottlenecks: identify performance issues
  • Workshop: reduce latency from 3s to <2s on a real pipeline

Module 6: Error Handling and Robust Fallbacks

2h30
  • Resilience patterns: retry, circuit breaker, timeout
  • Intelligent fallbacks: API → local, TTS → cache
  • Structured logging and alerts (CloudWatch, Datadog)
  • Workshop: implement a complete fallback system

Module 7: Cost Analysis and Optimization Strategies

2h
  • Cost per interaction calculation (Whisper + Claude + ElevenLabs)
  • Optimization: caching, quantization, rate limiting
  • Real case: Talki savings (EUR 1,200/month → EUR 340/month)
  • Workshop: simulate costs for your use case

Module 8: Testing and Production Deployment

3h
  • Load testing: simulate 100+ concurrent users
  • AWS Lambda deployment with serverless.yml
  • Monitoring: Grafana dashboards, latency and cost metrics
  • Final project: deploy your complete voice agent

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