Here is the latest on WebRTC from your friends at webrtcweekly.com.
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📖 Reading
Elon Musk’s xAI seeks top-tier multimedia engineers for Grok avatar team with salaries up to $440,000 (Nairametrics)
Grok’s voice interface is going to be based on WebRTC (and LiveKit).
⚙️ Technical
WebRTC Courses at a discount (sponsored)
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Scaling Real-Time Video on AWS: How We Keep WebRTC Latency Below 150ms with Kubernetes Autoscaling (Hackernoon)
Autoscaling, Kubernetes and SFUs.
You don’t need a WebRTC server for your voice agents (Daily)
Serverless WebRTC for Voice AI = no SFU as a middle-man.
WebRTC SIP Integration: Advanced Techniques for Real-Time Web and Telephony Communication (WebRTC.ventures)
Important pointers if you’re planning on using SIP with WebRTC.
Is this the tiniest little voice agent yet? (LinkedIn)
The ESP32 microcontroller seems to be the new toy of all voice AI tinkerers.
💼 Use Cases and Customer Wins
How Virtual Courtrooms Work — Secure, GDPR-Compliant Video Hearings (Digital Samba)
A look at legaltech and WebRTC solutions.
TI-Messenger goes live (Element)
This is a major win for Element in Germany’s healthcare market.
Freight Technologies deploys AI voice agents for logistics data (Press release)
Uses LiveKit.
7 Best WebRTC Use Cases for Global Communication (Vocal)
I’d add cloud gaming and live streaming to the list.
📢 Releases
Announcing Version 1.2 of the Vonage Video Reference Application (Vonage Developer)
Now with live captions.
GStreamer 1.26.4 Adds TAI Timestamp Muxing Support to mp4mux, Other Changes (9To5Linux)
Each GStreamer release brings with it fixes and improvements to its WebRTC support. This is positive.