July 30, 2025
Voice + AWS Bedrock & Claude + Strands Agents
100 people came to the AWS Builder Loft in San Francisco yesterday for a voice agents hands-on workshop.
@natrugrats talked about @deepgram_ai's speech models and APIs. Ayan Ray gave a great overview of @awscloud AI models and services.
Strands Agents is an open source agents SDK that works with any model/API and has extensive AWS integrations.
Strands will make as many tool calls as needed to execute a task, so in a conversational voice context you need to run the agent in a parallel process alongside the realtime voice pipeline. You also want to provide feedback about the progress the agent is making.
Chad Bailey added <thinking> text output and a second voice to the voice-ui-kit debug console to show this code pattern.
Here's the code repo from the workshop[1]
And here's the Strands Agents website[2]
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