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BusinessOctober 12, 2026

How EdTech Platforms Can Scale Student Services with Digital Humans

See how digital humans help educational institutions and EdTech platforms scale advising, tutoring, test prep, and student support around the clock.

DeveloperOctober 12, 2026

Keeping AI Agents Accountable in Production

Learn how Trinitite approaches AI agent governance, deterministic inference, observability, and voice AI controls for production systems.

BusinessAugust 26, 2026

Gemini Transcribe Is Getting Better at Hearing What Actually Matters

Dive into gemini-3.5-transcribe-live and its new Smart Transcription capabilities. Learn how you can choose between VERBATIM mode to preserve raw conversational speech and SMART mode to automatically clean disfluencies, resolve self-corrections, and format data (like emails, phone numbers, and addresses) into structured inputs for APIs and databases.

Business articles

BusinessFebruary 5, 2026

Conversational AI in iGaming: Powering Real-Time Player Engagement at Scale

Player attention is more fragmented than ever. For iGaming operators, there are two challenges. The first is attracting new players, and the second is keeping them active, engaged,

BusinessFebruary 5, 2026

Inside Convo AI World Japan: The Future of Conversational AI

What happens when conversational AI is designed not just for efficiency, but for emotion, culture, and trust? At Convo AI World Japan , held on November 5, 2025, co-hosted by Agora

BusinessFebruary 2, 2026

Convo AI Singapore: Reimagining Enterprise Engagement

In November 2025, Singapore became a focal point for a question many enterprises are now asking: What does meaningful engagement look like in an AI-driven world? Agora brought toge

BusinessNovember 18, 2025

The Day the Internet Stumbled…Again

Three major infrastructure outages in one month exposed a hard truth: real-time communication can't tolerate single-vendor dependency.

Illustration showing Agora’s global real-time network compared to the public internet, with video call quality side-by-side—clear on the Agora network and pixelated on the public internet—highlighting Agora’s superior reliability and connection paths across the world.

BusinessOctober 22, 2025

Carrier-Grade Reliability: How Agora's Network Withstands Major Internet Outages

When AWS went down for hours, Agora apps stayed online. Here’s how multi-vendor, edge-to-edge architecture keeps real-time communication running.

This guide focuses on adding real-time text transcriptions to your audio-based AI conversations, subtitles for your AI chat.

BusinessMay 22, 2025

Add Streaming Transcriptions in Your Conversational AI App

This guide focuses on adding real-time text transcriptions to your audio-based AI conversations, subtitles for your AI chat.

BusinessMay 12, 2025

AI-Powered Fan Engagement: From Celebrity Avatars to IP-Based Characters

In the age of hyper-personalization, fandom is no longer about watching from the sidelines—it’s about emotional immersion, real-time connection, and daily relevance. Agora, a globa

BusinessMay 7, 2025

The Foundation for Conversational AI: Real-Time Communication Infrastructure

Seamless communication has always been the backbone of innovation. From the telegraph to video conferencing, communication technology has been essential to technological progress f

BusinessApril 24, 2025

Transforming EdTech with Conversational AI Teaching Assistants

Education technology has come a long way in the past 5 years, blending innovation with accessibility. The ubiquity of virtual classrooms , online courses, and digital tools have si

BusinessApril 17, 2025

Conversational AI for Faith Tech: Enhancing Engagement and Reach

As technology evolves, faith communities increasingly turn to conversational AI to deepen connections, enhance worship experiences, and foster community engagement. Recent data hig

BusinessMarch 18, 2025

Revolutionizing Human-AI Voice Interaction

AI is better with voice. Why? Voice interaction with large language models (LLMs) is faster, easier, and more intuitive than typing with a chatbot. It enhances accessibility and ef

BusinessJanuary 10, 2025

CES 2025: Microsoft AI Award and Conversational AI Powered Robots

CES 2025 brought the world a spectacular showcase of technological innovation, and Agora emerged as a standout. From receiving the prestigious Microsoft AI Innovation Award to demo

BusinessDecember 19, 2024

AI-Driven Innovation Takes Center Stage at CEE 2024

Last month, Agora and Oracle brought together AI industry leaders and innovators in Singapore for an inspiring day focused on the future of AI, IoT, and real-time communications. H

DeveloperDecember 16, 2024

Watch-Out Siri and Alexa: Voice is the latest AI Battleground

The artificial intelligence arms race is transforming industries and fundamentally changing how we interact with technology. The days of tapping out prompts into a text box and wai

BusinessDecember 12, 2024

Elevating Remote Patient Care with Continuous Monitoring

Virtual Care has been widely adopted by healthcare providers, especially after the pandemic. It has now become a standard part of healthcare delivery for many systems, providing ac

BusinessDecember 2, 2024

Enabling Real-time Telehealth Collaboration with Augmented Reality

Telecollaboration refers to using telecommunications technology to enable collaboration between individuals or groups who are not physically present in the same location. This conc

BusinessNovember 13, 2024

Reinvent IoT with Real-Time Multimodal Agents Powered by Conversational AI and RTC

Discover how real-time, AI-powered multimodal agents are revolutionizing IoT across industries.

BusinessOctober 3, 2024

Agora and OpenAI: Enabling Natural Real-Time Conversational AI

Get the details of how Agora’s integration with OpenAI enables developers to create lifelike voice-driven conversational AI experiences—from customer support to language learning.

BusinessSeptember 18, 2024

Building Community Around Single-Player Games with Real-Time Voice, Video, and Chat

Learn how to boost engagement and build community around single player games with social functionality.

Working with a real-time communication (RTC) provider that offers high-quality customer support can help you get to market faster, scale more gracefully, and ultimately provide a better experience for your end users.

BusinessSeptember 13, 2024

World-Class Support for Building Real-Time Communication (RTC) Experiences

Working with a real-time communication (RTC) provider that offers high-quality customer support can help you get to market faster, scale more gracefully, and ultimately provide a better experience for your end users.

BusinessSeptember 6, 2024

From Live Captions to LLM Integration: Use Cases for Real-Time Speech to Text

Discover how AI is revolutionizing speech-to-text technology and transforming how we communicate, from real-time transcription and live captions, to call summarization and AI-powered responses.