--- title: Build a local voice agent with Red Hat OpenShift AI description: A walkthrough of building a local voice agent for a fictional pizza shop using Red Hat OpenShift AI, covering the voice-sandwich architecture (STT → LLM →... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/build-a-local-voice-agent-with-red-hat-openshift-ai-pjl9e0xyt twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Build a local voice agent with Red Hat OpenShift AI | daily.dev og:description: A walkthrough of building a local voice agent for a fictional pizza shop using Red Hat OpenShift AI, covering the voice-sandwich architecture (STT → LLM →... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/build-a-local-voice-agent-with-red-hat-openshift-ai-pjl9e0xyt og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/pJL9E0XyT.png og:image:alt: Build a local voice agent with Red Hat OpenShift AI og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Build a local voice agent with Red Hat OpenShift AI **[Red Hat Developer](https://daily.dev/sources/rhdev)** · 13 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary A walkthrough of building a local voice agent for a fictional pizza shop using Red Hat OpenShift AI, covering the voice-sandwich architecture (STT → LLM → TTS), model selection (Whisper, Higgs Audio, Llama 4 Scout), multi-agent orchestration with LangGraph, hardware benchmarking for TTS generation speed, observability with MLflow/OpenTelemetry, and guardrails with TrustyAI. Key lessons include measuring TTS gen-x ratio before writing client code, prompt engineering for agent handoffs, and using interrupt nodes instead of VAD for simplicity. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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