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Aidan Hornsby

5mo ago

Text-to-Speech Voice AI Model Guide 2025

Anyone building voice AI agents knows how hard it is to stay up-to-date with the latest text-to-speech voice models.

We spend time testing and experimenting with all of the available paid and open-source text-to-speech voice AI models and consolidated our own notes and experience testing different models into a single guide for developers evaluating multiple models.

Aidan Hornsby

5mo ago

5 lessons from talking to 100+ teams building voice AI agents

Real-time voice AI is young, and the tools and infrastructure that will power its future are being built right now.

After working with and speaking to hundreds of teams building voice AI agents, we ve learned a lot.

Aidan Hornsby

5mo ago

New: API & SDK changes, session recordings, Twilio upgrades & more

We ve just shipped some big updates to the Layercode private beta:

Redesigned Dashboard UI

Aidan Hornsby

3mo ago

Deepgram Flux: now available on the edge

We're excited to announce a major upgrade to Layercode: support for Deepgram Flux: the world's first transcription system built specifically for voice agents.

Aidan Hornsby

3mo ago

Faster, more expressive voice AI agents with Cartesia Sonic-3

Cartesia's Sonic-3 is now available on Layercode.

Aidan Hornsby

3mo ago

New: Post-call analytics, Deepgram Flux improvements & more

Hey folks

We've been shipping a steady stream of improvements to Layercode, based on your feedback.

fmerian

4mo ago

Layercode CLI - Build voice AI agents with one command

Build a voice AI agent in minutes, straight from your terminal. One command scaffolds your project with built-in tunneling, sample backends, and global edge deployment. Connect via webhook, use existing agent logic, pay only for speech (silence is free).
Damien Tanner

5mo ago

How we use coding agents at Layercode

Claude Code and Codex has been speeding up dev at Layercode, but also led us down time wasting rabbit holes.

Here s what we ve learned so far:

1. As of GPT5, Codex is succeeding in tasks more often than Claude.

Aidan Hornsby

4mo ago

Layercode Startup Program - Get $2,000 in free credits to build voice AI startups

We believe every developer with a vision deserves the tools to build it. We're launching a Startup Program to give early-stage companies building innovative voice AI experiences access to world-class voice infrastructure.

Aidan Hornsby

5mo ago

How to write prompts for voice AI agents

We created a tactical guide sharing a bunch of best practice for developers on how to tune your prompts to make your voice agent's speech more conversational. Sharing the fundamentals here

Written and spoken language are fundamentally different in a number of ways that impact how you should approach building voice AI agents.

Consider how a human might communicate the same information:

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