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AssemblyAI and LiveKit simplify voice agent development

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AssemblyAI and LiveKit have collaborated to simplify the creation of voice agents. The first approach integrates AssemblyAI's Voice Agent API with LiveKit's WebRTC capabilities, handling the entire AI pipeline—speech-to-text, LLM, and text-to-speech—over a single WebSocket connection. A second method utilizes the LiveKit Agents framework, allowing developers to orchestrate specialized models like AssemblyAI's Universal-3.5 Pro Realtime for speech-to-text, OpenAI's GPT-4o for the LLM, and Cartesia for text-to-speech. AI

IMPACT Simplifies the integration of speech-to-text, LLM, and text-to-speech components for developers building voice agents.

RANK_REASON This is a tutorial on how to integrate existing tools and services to build a specific application, rather than a release of a new frontier model or a significant industry-wide announcement.

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AssemblyAI and LiveKit simplify voice agent development

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COVERAGE [3]

  1. AssemblyAI blog TIER_1 English(EN) ·

    Best voice agent API for startups building their first voice product

    Compare the three paths to your first voice product — DIY, a platform, or one API — plus the five criteria that matter: accuracy, latency, DX, pricing, lock-in.

  2. AssemblyAI blog TIER_1 English(EN) ·

    Build a voice agent with LiveKit and AssemblyAI’s Voice Agent API

    Build a multi-user, browser-ready voice agent in Python. LiveKit handles the WebRTC transport — rooms, participants, recording, geographic distribution, mobile and browser SDKs. The AssemblyAI Voice Agent API handles the entire AI pipeline — speech-to-text, LLM, and text-to-speec…

  3. AssemblyAI blog TIER_1 English(EN) ·

    Build a voice agent with LiveKit

    This tutorial walks you through building a complete voice agent using LiveKit Agents as your orchestration framework and AssemblyAI's Universal-3 Pro Streaming model as the speech-to-text layer.

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