8 posts tagged "voice-agents".
Since 9 October 2026, SpeechifyAI takes an LLM's reply over a WebSocket as it is written. From Google Cloud us-east4 that day, the first word was audible 49 ms after the LLM finished its first sentence, against 68 ms with one HTTP request per sentence.
SpeechifyAI team
LiveKit's Speechify plugins, for Python and Node.js, add Speechify TTS to an AgentSession in one line. The Python plugin streams each sentence: 98 ms median to first audible audio from US East on 12 Oct 2026.
SpeechifyAI team
In our own round on 9 October 2026, Simba 3.2 reached first audible audio in a median of 47 ms from US East, the lowest of the 13 streaming endpoints we timed. What to measure before you pick a TTS API for a voice agent, and what cuts the wait.
SpeechifyAI team
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, with no extra API calls.
SpeechifyAI teamFirst published by 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.
SpeechifyAI teamFirst published by 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.
SpeechifyAI teamFirst published by Luke Oliff
Simba 3.2 for voice agents and narration at volume: 47 ms to first audible audio from US East on 9 October 2026, and $10 per 1M characters, $6 on Scale. Simba 3.5 (21 October 2026) speaks 48 languages with every catalog voice.
SpeechifyAI teamFirst published by 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.
SpeechifyAI teamFirst published by Luke Oliff
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