Building Voice Agents and Agent Guardrails & Gates

This month you'll hear about how to create voice agents and how to give your agents guardrails & gates.

We're always looking for speakers. Submit your talk here: https://forms.gle/5A26sY5475X8J14S8

Food and drinks will be provided.

This meetup will be recorded and uploaded (not live-streamed) to our YouTube channel - https://www.youtube.com/@DenverScriptMeetup

Agenda
6:00 PM - Networking
6:15 PM - JS News
6:30 PM - Building a Local-First, Open Source Voice Agent by Shea Hawkins
7:00 PM - Guardrails & Gates by Charles Faris

Talk Descriptions

Guardrails & Gates by Charles Faris

Guardrails and gates have been used by software development teams for years to reduce risk, improve software quality, and ensure code standardization. With the growing use of AI tools and agents, the use of these checks has become even important for both professional and personal projects. This talk will illustrate the use of a variety of gates and guardrails that any developer can incorporate into their projects.

Building a Local-First, Open Source Voice Agent by Shea Hawkins

Building a local-first voice assistant isn't easy: Especially if you want to run it on the frontend. There's a number of frameworks on the market today (Pipecat, Livekit) -- which are solid, but lose out on some of the cross-platform opportunities that are available when you compile from Rust to Wasm. This talk is for learning about the realtime framework architectures for building voice agents, and how building in Rust can unlock the browser frontend through wasm-cross compilation.

Speaker Bios

Charles Farris has been writing software ever since his parents got him a TRS-80 Color Computer in 1981. Over the last 4 decades, he was written stock market trading software, XBox, Playstation, and PC games, 3D CAD applications, flight simulators, and land management applications. He is currently interested in event sourcing, distributed computing, and software quality.

Shea Hawkins is the Principal Software Engineer at Demandbase by day, and is building capable voice agents by night (at PATY AI).