Every person on earth will talk to voice agents multiple times a day

May 21, 2026

> Every person on earth will talk to voice agents multiple times a day.

In 2023, when we first started showing people the voice agents we were building using the (then) new GPT-4, we almost always got the same reaction. People would say, in quick succession:
1. Wow
2. That can't be real
3. I don't want to talk to "an AI"

We got this reaction from engineers in San Francisco! We got this reaction from venture investors in San Francisco!

And my reaction to that reaction was: I'm 100% sure that every person on earth will talk to LLMs multiple times a day, every day.

I've told that story before to @chelcietay. Chelcie is a venture investor who definitely understood what was happening with voice AI very early. We sat down to record a conversation about what we've both seen over the past three years, as voice AI has become mainstream.

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Every person on earth will talk to voice agents multiple times a day. @kwindla, creator of @Pipecat_ai & CEO of @trydaily, isn't hedging on that.

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