Awais Shafique

Awais Shafique

Beyond PresenceBeyond Presence
3x Entrepreneur, Founder@Beyond Presence
76 points
Beyond Presence: Video Agent Platform
We use Deepgram for transcription (ASR/STT), since it is the most mature provider, offering the most stable API and largest feature set (e.g. supported languages) overall
Beyond Presence: Video Agent Platform
We use LiveKit for managed video streaming infrastructure and also use LiveKit agents as basis for our conversational agents. WebRTC streaming is really hard and LiveKit provides a great developer-friendly managed solution for that.
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Beyond Presence: Video Agent Platform
We currently use ElevenLabs Flash 2.5 for voice cloning and real-time speech generation (TTS), which has ultra low latency (~75 ms claimed, 250ms measured; even faster than Cartesia) while still supporting multiple language