AI Engineer YouTube · May 9, 2026

Give Your Chat Agent a Voice — Luke Harries, ElevenLabs

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Why it matters

Chat agents dominated 2025. Every product either went AI-first or got left behind. But text-in, text-out is already starting to feel dated. Voice is faster, more accessible, and opens up interaction paradigms that chat just can't touch — phone lines, Zoom calls, screen readers, ambient interfaces. In this talk, Luke Ha

My takeaway: Chat agents dominated 2025. Every product either went AI-first or got left behind. But text-in, text-out is already starting to feel dated. Voice is faster, more accessible, and opens up interaction paradigms that chat just can't touch — phone lines, Zoom calls, screen readers, ambient interfaces. In this talk, Luke Ha