From Voice Agents to AI Avatars with Alexander Smola
Alex Smola
Hosted by Sam Charrington
Published Sep 16, 2026
1 h 5 min
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Alex Smola discusses the development of voice agents, audiovisual systems and AI avatars. Topics include audio tokenization, inference cost, conversational latency, visual context and how artificial systems might learn from interaction while responding appropriately to human emotion.
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