The speaker said direct voice-to-voice models were not very reliable at the time of the conversation.

“And we talked about like, why is that versus why don't we just have a voice to voice model?”

“Like, why don't we use that?”

“that like the reality is those just are not super reliable right now we also talk about like the trade-offs that you have to make when you're building voice agents so you have to trade off like the intelligence of responses that you're getting versus the latency so you can get very intelligent responses but you're also going to trade off it's going to be a slower response and so for different use cases that might be good or bad we also talk about like reliability so there are some llm companies that may not be like super reliable in terms of like they're”