Agora and Google DeepMind Put Gemini Voice AI Into the Hands of Builders

A voice agent can sound natural before it learns how to carry the interruption, delay and uncertainty inside an actual conversation.

Agora and Google DeepMind bring Gemini Voice AI into a hands-on New York workshop on November 17. The room is built for developers, AI engineers and technical founders who want to move beyond a scripted exchange and work directly with the systems that make real-time voice interaction possible.

Why this room matters

Voice changes the engineering contract. The user cannot inspect a hidden loading state or quietly rewrite the prompt before the next response arrives. Latency becomes part of the experience. Turn-taking becomes product logic. The system has to understand when to speak, when to wait and how to recover when the conversation moves somewhere the demonstration did not anticipate.

The workshop gives builders a place to test those decisions in code. Registration is free and approval-based. The exact location near the East Village is shared through the official registration process.

Event details

• Date: November 17, 2026
• Time: 5:30-8:30 p.m. ET
• Location: Near the East Village, New York; exact address after approval
• Hosts: Agora and Google DeepMind
• Community host: Hermes
• Audience: Developers, AI engineers and technical founders
• Access: Free with approval
• Register: Official registration page