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Building Realtime Voice Agents with FastRTC

Phone Calling Agents Course | Lesson 1

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Miguel Otero Pedrido
Nov 19, 2025
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Welcome to Lesson 1 of the Phone Calling Agents course!

In this lesson, you’ll learn what actually powers live agent conversations: WebRTC, WebSockets, and how FastRTC makes both dramatically easier to use. We’ll cut through the complexity, compare when each technology shines, and show how they work together to enable low-latency, two-way audio.

By the end of this lesson, you’ll have your first real-time voice agent running, ready to talk through both a Gradio UI and Twilio.

💻 Get the code - Explore the repository to follow the full syllabus and access all the resources for this lesson.

📕 Catch up on Lesson 0 - Review the architecture we’ll be building and learn how to join the upcoming live sessions.

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