In this episode of the Convo AI World Podcast, Hermes Frangoudis sits down with Luka Chkhetiani from AssemblyAI to unpack what it takes to build reliable speech AI for real-world applications. Luka shares how AssemblyAI's mission evolved from making speech recognition accessible to developers into building robust models for real-time transcription, voice agents, conversational intelligence, and messy production environments.

The conversation explores why latency alone is the wrong obsession, how turn-to-turn responsiveness changes the user experience, why reliability is now one of the hardest problems in speech AI, and what developers often misunderstand when bringing voice agents into production.

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