How I Built a Real-Time Voice AI University Counsellor with Google ADK and Gemini Live in 10 Days

The Problem Choosing a university course is one of the highest-stakes decisions a young person makes — and the experience is still stuck in the past. University websites are mazes of PDFs. Course advisors are booked weeks out. And for international students navigating visa requirements, ATAR cutoffs, and scholarship deadlines from overseas, the information gap is even wider. I wanted to see what happens when you put a knowledgeable, always-available voice AI in front of a prospective student. Not a chatbot. A real conversation. That became Waypoint — and Clara , Kingsford University's AI course counsellor. What Clara does Clara is a real-time voice agent. You speak to her. She responds with audio. And while she's talking, structured cards appear in a sidebar — course tiles, scholarship cards, markdown knowledge docs, booking confirmations — all in real time, without waiting for her to finish speaking. A typical session looks like this: "Hi Clara, I have a friend from China who wants to