How To Learn AI | Voice Agents - ElevenLabs, VAPI, Twilio

How to build a voice AI agent that answers your business calls — a quick AI Start Academy bootcamp lecture part session. We break down voice-agent architecture (speech-to-text → LLM → text-to-speech), then build a basic inbound-call agent live with VAPI, ElevenLabs, and Twilio, covering the three highest-value use cases (customer support, onboarding, IVR/lead qualification) and what it costs to run. First half is a plain-English AI refresher: how LLMs actually work (next-token prediction, why they hallucinate, pre-training vs fine-tuning, RAG), prompting techniques, AI guardrails that stop agents inventing facts, and chat vs agentic coding tools. ⏱ Chapters Workbook review & setup Claude Desktop vs Browser How LLMs actually work (autocomplete at scale) Prompting & guardrails Chat vs agentic coding (write a PRD first) Build a voice AI agent (VAPI + ElevenLabs + Twilio) ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🚀 AI Start Academy — hands-on AI Automation Agency Bootcamps in San Francisco (+ live on Zoom). 📅 Dates & enrollment: https://luma.com/aistartacademy 🌐 https://aistartacademy.com | 📩 [email protected] 👉 Subscribe:    / @aistartacademy   #aivoiceagent #vapi #voiceai #aiautomationagency #elevenlabs #twilio #aiagents #howllmswork #aibootcamp