Agent type

Voice-Enabled

Speech-focused agents for IVR systems, customer support, and voice-first applications with real-time speech-to-text, natural response generation, and stateful dialog management.

Capabilities

  • Real-time speech-to-text transcription
  • Natural language response generation
  • Stateful multi-turn dialog management
  • Human transfer with context handoff
  • Barge-in and interruption handling

Limitations

  • Higher latency sensitivity than text-based agents
  • Speech recognition accuracy variance across accents

Best for

Best for

Voice Agent

Voice support scales poorly with manual IVR trees, rigid menu options, and long hold times. Customers abandon 60% of calls after 2 minutes on hold, and adding voice capacity requires hiring and training human agents.

Open Guide

Customer Support Agent

Support teams handle 60-80% of tickets that are repetitive FAQs, draining agent time and creating inconsistent responses. As ticket volume scales, hiring linearly is unsustainable and new agents take weeks to ramp up on product knowledge.

Open Guide

Meeting Summarizer

Teams lose 30% of meeting decisions to poor note-taking. Action items go unassigned, follow-ups slip through cracks, and attendees spend 15 minutes post-meeting writing recaps instead of executing on outcomes.

Open Guide

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Architecture layers

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Related use cases

Related use cases

Voice Agent

Voice support scales poorly with manual IVR trees, rigid menu options, and long hold times. Customers abandon 60% of calls after 2 minutes on hold, and adding voice capacity requires hiring and training human agents.

Open Guide

Customer Support Agent

Support teams handle 60-80% of tickets that are repetitive FAQs, draining agent time and creating inconsistent responses. As ticket volume scales, hiring linearly is unsustainable and new agents take weeks to ramp up on product knowledge.

Open Guide

Meeting Summarizer

Teams lose 30% of meeting decisions to poor note-taking. Action items go unassigned, follow-ups slip through cracks, and attendees spend 15 minutes post-meeting writing recaps instead of executing on outcomes.

Open Guide