Here is the latest on WebRTC from your friends at webrtcweekly.com.
🥳 We’ve migrated from Wordpress to Substack - hope you’ll like it as much as we do…
📖 Reading
You don’t need a WebRTC server for your voice agents (Daily)
User-Bot interaction doesn’t need an SFU. Not really.
⚙️ Technical
Peermetrics provides real-time analytics and performance monitoring for WebRTC applications (sponsored)
Expert configuration, scaling, custom integrations, and enterprise support is now available for your self-hosted Peermetrics implementations.
Peermetrics WebRTC Analytics Platform Review: Open-Source Monitoring & Debugging (WebRTC.ventures)
WebRTC.ventures gives a tour of their Peermetrics acquisition.
Proprietary RTCP Messages and Key Extensions (Webex engineering)
Another good post in the RTP/RTCP explainer series by Webex.
WebRTC Simulcast Explained: Improve Video Quality Without Bandwidth Burn (Writers)
It fails to say when NOT to use simulcast, which is equally important.
💼 Use Cases and Customer Wins
ElevenLabs Conversational AI now supports WebRTC (ElevenLabs)
This one is interesting a TTS/STT vendor (not LLM) now added a WebRTC interface. Makes sense.
Hedra Launches Live Avatars With LiveKit, Delivering Real-Time AI Characters At Ultra-Low Latency And Cost (MPost)
LiveKit adds built-in support for Hedra, enables generating live video characters as part of its Agents framework.
📢 Releases
WhatsApp Calling API: New Voice Agent Integration Opportunities (Gustavo Garcia)
Gustavo sheds light on the new WhatsApp Calling API - and its use of WebRTC.
mediasoup 3.17.0 released (mediasoup)
With the ability to expose the server’s local IP address in ICE negotiations.