# BONUS: Building Real-Time AI Voice Agents with LiveKit's Ben Cherry

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Published: 2026-05-22T18:40:00+00:00
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## Resource

Voice agents are moving from “cool demo” to real product infrastructure. In this livestream, we’re joined by Ben Cherry of LiveKit to break down what it actually takes to build real-time AI agents that can listen, respond, interrupt, call tools, and work in production. LiveKit is an open source framework and developer platform for building voice, video, and physical AI agents in production. We’ll talk through the stack behind real-time AI experiences, then build and test a live demo together on The Neuron. In this live demo, we’ll cover: 🎙️ How LiveKit helps developers build voice, video, and physical AI agents ⚡ What makes real-time agents different from normal chatbots 🧠 How voice agents handle latency, interruptions, speech, and tool calls 🛠️ Why production-ready AI agents are much harder than a weekend demo 🚀 What builders should know before shipping voice AI to real users And yes, we’re doing a live demo, which means there is at least a small chance the agent talks back at exactly the wrong time. Perfect television. Guest: Ben Cherry, LiveKit LiveKit: https://livekit.com/ Ben on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/bcherry-product-engineer Ben on GitHub: https://github.com/bcherry Subscribe to The Neuron for clear, useful AI news, demos, and explainers for people trying to understand where this tech is actually going. https://www.theneuron.ai/

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