Making Voice AI Local

Neil Patel, founder and CEO of Vakya, joins Matt Wyman to explore a future where voice becomes the default interface for AI and where those experiences need to feel genuinely local. They discuss why frontier models still struggle with the nuances of languages, dialects, accents, and cultural context, and how localized voice agents can help businesses meet customers where they are. Neil also looks beyond call center automation to a world of ambient, personalized AI, and explains why agency, clarity of intent, strong values, and verifiability will become increasingly important as the cost of intelligence approaches zero.