New course: Add voice to your AI agents and applications, built with @VocalBridge (disclosure: an AI Fund portfolio company) and taught by its CEO @_a...
Andrew Ng announced a new DeepLearning.AI course on adding voice to AI agents, built with VocalBridge and taught by its CEO. The course teaches how to build fast and reliable voice applications, covering voice-interactive games, adding voice to agents without rewriting prompts, and outbound phone call agents. It also covers voice evaluation for quality assurance before deployment.
Background
Andrew Ng is a globally known AI researcher and educator, co-founder of Google Brain, former chief scientist at Baidu, and founder of DeepLearning.AI, which produces widely-followed short courses for developers. AI Fund is his venture studio that builds and invests in AI startups. VocalBridge is an AI Fund portfolio company focused on voice infrastructure for AI agents. The course bridges two common approaches to voice AI: older pipelines (speech-to-text → LLM → text-to-speech), which are accurate but slow, and newer "voice-to-voice" models that respond fast but can hallucinate or garble output. The key pitch is that developers can add voice to agents without rewriting existing prompts, retrieval pipelines, or tool definitions.