Jose Nicholas Francisco

Product Marketing Manager

Jose is a Developer Advocate at Deepgram, aiming to explain and demystify the inner workings of AI. He has a background in software engineering, with projects focused on fraud detection and prevention. Jose earned a bachelor's and master's degree in computer science, with a focus on artificial intelligence, from Stanford University. He currently lives in San Francisco with his friends.

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AI voice agent to human handoffs: How to warm transfer calls without losing context

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Deepgram Ranks on RepVue's Top 20 Venture-Backed List

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TTS with emotion: emphasis and control in live conversations

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Voice AI telephony integration: carriers, SLAs and global rollout

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Voice agent function calling: real-time data lookup during a call

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What is Speaker Diarization?

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The Rise of PER: A New Standard for Measuring TTS Accuracy

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Voice agent testing: how to evaluate before you take real calls

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Speech prosody across languages: what transfers and what breaks

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Voice AI latency: why pauses read as hesitation

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Paralanguage in voice AI: a complete guide to paralinguistic cues

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Filler words in speech-to-text: retained vs clean output

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Turn detection in voice agents: silence timeouts vs VAD vs semantic models

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Emotional text-to-speech: how expressivity controls fix flat delivery

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Backchannels vs interruptions: Handling listener signals in voice agents

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The real-time voice AI stack for agents: An architecture guide

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AI Voice Agents vs. Human Agents: Metrics Compared

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Conversation Context for Voice Agents: What It Is and Why It Matters for Accuracy

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How to Evaluate Voice Quality Claims Across Text-to-Speech Providers