Emotion sensing
Audio prosody weighted with text sentiment so frustration, hesitation, and distress are caught from how callers speak, not only from what they say.
Most voice agents fail in the runtime, not in the model. A production voice agent is the model plus the execution layer around it.
Four capabilities branching from a single voice pipeline.
Audio prosody weighted with text sentiment so frustration, hesitation, and distress are caught from how callers speak, not only from what they say.
Tone, pace, formality, and address adapt per caller. Direct or detailed, formal or casual, brisk or warm.
Voice interactions paired with dynamic UI components. Cards, lists, forms, and structured interfaces generated in real time alongside the conversation.
Per-user graph plus an agent-global graph. Short-term, long-term, episodic, semantic. The voice remembers across sessions, days, and weeks.
Voice ships a different set of problems than chat. Turn boundaries, silence behaviour, barge-in, audio-domain emotion, and TTS playback timing shape the architecture as much as the STT, LLM, and TTS providers.
Map the voice tax before any code. Turn boundaries, silence, barge-in, audio emotion, TTS timing. Latency budget and human-handoff set per channel.
Conversation map and trust boundariesTurn-taking, silence behaviour, barge-in, streaming response timing, and emotional context designed into the runtime itself. Lifecycle keyed on TTS-stopped, not LLM-end, so the interaction feels continuous, not transactional.
Production voice pipeline, end to endCalibrate per channel: VAD, silence ladders, TTS pacing, barge-in latency. Persona validated under real callers. Latency held end to end until the seams vanish.
Production-ready voice systemOne turn end to end. Critical stages run in parallel, not in sequence. By the time the user stops speaking, most of the prompt is assembled, memory is fetched, and emotion is read from prosody. Latency is not infrastructure. Latency is behaviour.
Memory speculative-fetches against partial transcripts. Affect computes prosody and text sentiment in parallel.
Persona stays the same. The six other layers recompose around it. Tool surface is scoped to the current phase.
LLM is fired against the latest partial transcript with version tagging. Discard rate on revision: 3 to 5%.
Surface chosen per turn. UI elements stream into the page progressively, in step with speech, not as a block.
Voice that lands as conversation, not as a phone tree. Four shifts every Nester voice engagement is built to deliver.
Voice agents absorb repetitive intake, triage, scheduling, and routing work that traditionally moves across queues, shifts, and disconnected teams.
Calls that used to need transfers, callbacks, or hold time resolve in a single turn. Sub-second response keeps the conversation moving, not the caller waiting.
Emotion sensing, persona consistency, escalation paths, and compliant retention are designed in from the first call, not added once production issues appear.
Inbound voice volume handled without proportional growth in headcount, shift coverage, training cycles, or vendor overhead.
STT, TTS, LLM, transport, telephony. Pluggable across every layer. Whatever your team has chosen, we work with it.
What teams ask before voice goes into production.
No.
We work across the infrastructure and providers companies already use. STT, TTS, telephony, orchestration, observability, and runtime systems.
Initial systems typically reach live environments within weeks, then evolve through pressure-testing, calibration, and production hardening under real caller conditions.
Voice systems are evaluated against latency, interruption handling, escalation logic, emotional variance, silence behaviour, and operational edge cases before wider rollout.
Yes.
Escalation paths, human handoff, supervision, and trust boundaries are designed into the system from the beginning.
Voice engagements build on internal runtime, orchestration, memory, observability, and reliability infrastructure developed across previous production systems.
That allows faster iteration around latency, turn-taking, escalation, emotional adaptation, and production hardening without forcing companies into proprietary stacks.
Yes.
We have worked on systems requiring HIPAA-aware workflows, auditability, retention controls, and governed escalation behaviour.
Most engagements continue through calibration, optimization, reliability tuning, and expansion into adjacent workflows as usage patterns emerge.
The voice is no longer the interface.
It becomes part of the operation itself.