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AssemblyAI Voice Agent API is a single WebSocket API for building production voice agents without stitching together separate speech-to-text, LLM-routing, and text-to-speech services. It is aimed at developers building customer support agents, phone receptionists, clinical intake workflows, scheduling assistants, sales callers, and voice interfaces inside existing apps. The product emphasizes real-world transcription accuracy for names, addresses, IDs, accents, and medical terms, then pairs that with turn detection, interruption handling, JSON Schema tool calling, session resumption, and roughly one-second response latency. It is notable now because AssemblyAI is packaging its Universal-3.5 Pro speech stack into a complete voice-agent pipeline, giving teams a faster path from demo to reliable phone or in-app voice automation.
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