Voice AI Pronunciation Challenges

​Join us for a deep dive into the challenges with pronunciation when deploying voice AI applications in production:

• ​Why TTS models struggle to pronounce certain words like Chipotle or Acetaminophen

• ​What are phonemes?

• ​Custom pronunciation without needing to learn the international phonetic alphabet (IPA) or brute force spellings

• ​Scaling challenges

• ​Switching to a different TTS provider while in production

• ​Tradeoffs between emotional range and pronunciation consistency

• ​Misleading latency promises and tactics to reduce latency

• ​New tools to catch pronunciation failures before your customers notice

• ​How to set up useful metrics that matter beyond TTFB

• ​War stories from the Voice AI trenches

​If you're actively building and scaling Voice AI applications, this event is for you!

​Agenda:

• ​6:30 – 7:30: Lightning Talks

• ​7:00 – 7:30: Panel Discussion on how to scale with reliable TTS performance:

• ​7:30 - 8:30: Networking

​About the Hosts

​Rime builds speech AI infrastructure and blends advanced ML with deep linguistic and sociolinguistic insight to create ultra-realistic multilingual voices that breathe, laugh, and carry the subtle rhythms of real everyday speech.

​Coval builds the reliability infrastructure for Voice AI agents, where QA, product, and engineering teams collaborate to test, evaluate, and monitor voice agents at scale.

​ConverseNow builds voice AI for restaurants. ConverseNow delivers a branded and fully customizable experience for each guest to improve customer satisfaction, drive frequency of spend, and give restaurants control through AI Your Way.