9 posts tagged "voice-agents".
Speechify's official LiveKit plugin streams word-level timestamps alongside the audio. Read them by overriding transcription_node and you get word-synced captions in a Python voice agent — no extra API calls.
Luke Oliff
What streaming text-to-speech makes possible: read-aloud, voice agents, call narration, live captions, and read-along highlighting, all built on the Speechify streaming endpoints.
Luke Oliff
A voice agent's tool call happens inside a turn the caller is waiting through, which makes it a latency decision before it is an architecture one. The rule: reads that return fast run inline, writes and slow lookups get a receipt and finish asynchronously.
Vrishab Nair
The three ways an ecommerce brand answers the phone, normalized to cost per talk minute so they are comparable. Outsourced call centers run $0.35 to $1.35 a minute and voice agents run under $0.08 all-in, but containment rate decides more than either number.
Vrishab Nair
Nine voice agent platforms priced on what a minute actually costs once LLM, speech and telephony are added. Most headline rates are platform fees.
Luke Oliff
Which speech platform to pick when your chatbot has to talk. The decision is not voice quality, it is whether you need a TTS API or a full voice agent, plus how the model reads account numbers and order IDs back to a caller.
Luke Oliff
The 10 text to speech APIs worth evaluating in 2026, ranked on blind-listener scores from Artificial Analysis and priced per million characters.
Luke Oliff
Point Deepgram Voice Agent at the open-source tts-shims OpenAI-compatible proxy to speak with a Speechify voice. The shim answers Deepgram's open_ai TTS request and keeps your Speechify key server-side.
Luke Oliff
Baseten published a case study on the SpeechifyAI voice agent stack. This is our view on why model co-location matters for live calls.
Luke Oliff