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Adds the follow-up post, OpenAI still has a WebRTC Problem (/blog/webrtc-is-still-the-problem): why WebRTC is the wrong transport for voice AI, and how MoQ fixes it.

What's in it

  • Interactive diagrams (src/components/voice/): speech-to-text, text-to-speech, interruptions, and latency budgets. Each one compares WebRTC with MoQ. They start once they reach the middle of the screen and keep playing until they scroll away.
  • Hand-drawn art:
    • The diagram icons are traced from drawings: the human, the robot, and a two-frame kraken.
    • Three drawings, "I require context", "HEY LISTEN", and "Not Just Mics", are recolored to the blog's usual #00BF2D.
    • "I require context" is also the post's cover.
  • Huh cat: a reusable meme.astro component. It plays a 49KB WebM that loops muted, toggles sound on click, and mutes itself when it scrolls off screen.
  • Embedded voice demo: the post embeds /voice's demo.
  • Author sign-off: the socials are reordered to Email, Discord, LinkedIn, X, Bluesky. The homepage uses the same list, so it changes too.

Merge with main

main gained the /voice page (moq-dev/moq.dev#177) and the talking cat (moq-dev/moq.dev#180) while this branch was open. The merge resolved four conflicts:

  • voice-demo.tsx: kept main's version. It already has this branch's session API port and the one-message-per-segment transcript fix, plus the cat.
  • public/voice/ai.svg: kept the traced robot, which also replaces the placeholder on the /demo card.
  • package.json / bun.lock: kept main's newer @moq/* versions.

Checks

  • biome check src, tsc --noEmit, and bun test pass (32 tests).
  • On a local dev server, the merged branch was clean in both places:
    • /voice rendered the cat with no console errors.
    • The post loaded all of its images, the huh cat, and all 8 interactive islands, with no console errors.
  • Not checked: a real voice session on /voice, or the production build. Deploys are manual.

(Written by Claude Opus 5.5)

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kixelated and others added 30 commits October 4, 2026 13:54
Brings the draft post over from `voice-api` and places the existing
speech-to-text and text-to-speech diagrams inline, plus the voice demo from
`codex/voice-demo-embed`. The demo now uses the shared PUBLIC_API_URL instead
of its own variable.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Each diagram now shows one transport (`transport="webrtc" | "moq"`), so the
post can put prose between them. Words only appear once they've been said or
heard, and lost words are scribbled out instead of struck through. Lanes get
avatars, the reply is a speech bubble, and the legend only lists states that
happen. The hand-drawn art is placeholder SVGs in public/voice/, replacing the
unused `art` override prop.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The kraken from "On a Boat" eats the words that matter: "away from" in the
prompt and "don't, I repeat, DON'T" in the reply, so WebRTC flips the meaning
instead of just garbling it.

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Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
One token for both directions, poll GET /voice/sessions/:id until an edge
claims the session, and render refusals by code. Publish the RTVI
transcript.json.z track the agent subscribes to, and show its transcripts.
The demo API is its own PUBLIC_VOICE_API_URL, staging everywhere until
moq.pro ships the demo to production, with the wtf Turnstile sitekey.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
RTVI 2.x resends a bot-output segment's full text on every spoken word as
progress, so keep only the first message per segment_id.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
- Two interruption diagrams: one MoQ track keeps playing its buffer after
  "stop", a replacement track drops it. The diagram engine gains flushed
  segments, timed words, and multiple replies.
- Render the voice demo where the DEMO placeholder was.
- Fix typos, and correct the NACK, NetEQ timestamp, Opus packet count, and
  WARP claims after a fact-check.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The track-swap diagram now has two lanes per side: the old track's buffered
audio is X'd out as discarded, and the replacement plays on its own lane.
The diagram engine stacks any number of lanes per side, replacing the
flushed-segment and timed-word special cases.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
- Words in generated or received audio show faintly before they play.
- The new interruption track is faded and labeled until it exists, and its
  audio is marked generated when the AI makes it, not at the start.
- The AI now answers "Paris. Home of le croissant." and, after being
  interrupted, asks "Okay, what should we discuss next?"

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
One upstream fans out to two subscribers. When the kraken eats "of France?",
the 1s speech-to-speech subscriber gives up and stalls politely, while the
10s speech-to-text subscriber waits for retransmits and answers correctly.
Also adds the tokens.png asset for the post.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
- Your "stop" travels up to the AI as packets, and the AI takes a moment to
  decide before it starts the new track, so more of the old answer plays.
- Lane notes stay readable while a new-track lane is still faded.
- Correct the post's audio NACK line: WebRTC retransmits audio when the SDP
  is munged, but the jitter buffer rarely waits for it.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
A diagram starts once it reaches the middle half of the screen and keeps
playing until it scrolls fully out of view, instead of pausing as soon as it
leaves the top half.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Replace the human, robot, and kraken placeholders with traced drawings. The
two kraken frames share one viewBox so they swap in place.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
- NetEQ adapts to jitter, not RTT; link the current NetEQ doc.
- WebRTC barely uses timestamps rather than ignoring them outright.
- Audio retransmits exist but lose to the jitter buffer.
- Opus FEC is a lower bitrate copy of the previous frame, not parity.
- MPEG-TS leans on FEC and a continuity counter, not the 0x47 sync byte.
- The voice assistant is ChatGPT, not Codex.
- Typos: STT, aggravate, duplicated words, and a few grammar slips.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Restructure the opening around human retransmissions, and move the NetEQ,
audio retransmit, and playout-delay notes into the fix-it section.

The "Huh?" quote now holds the huh cat meme: a tiny keyed WebM that loops
muted and plays its sound on click, via a reusable meme component.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Also includes the latest copy edits: a Gatekept section on Google owning web
support, and new captions.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The context, Navi, and Not Just Mics drawings used #00A663 and #2EEA4C. Every
other post's hand-drawn art uses #00BF2D, so recolor them to that, keeping
the anti-aliased edges.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Email, Discord, LinkedIn, X, then Bluesky.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
kixelated and others added 2 commits October 21, 2026 15:32
- Write a real description and date it today.
- Fix missing words ("why", "results in") and "masquerading".
- WebRTC only syncs A/V by milliseconds, not by the 500ms you'd need.
- "filler noise" instead of the VoIP term "comfort noise".
- Link both the datagrams and FEC posts.
- Say playout-delay is video only once instead of twice.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
…ponents

# Conflicts:
#	bun.lock
#	package.json
#	public/voice/ai.svg
#	src/components/voice-demo.tsx
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It changes the homepage and every post, so it lands separately in #183.

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Comment thread src/components/meme.astro Outdated
With prefers-reduced-motion, the clip no longer autoplays. It shows its first
frame and plays only while the sound is on, so the click that unmutes it is
also the play/stop control.

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kixelated deleted the claude/voice-post-components branch October 21, 2026 22:56
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