Build Voice AI Agents That Answer the Phone

For developers who have built a text agent with tools and now need one that answers the phone. Learn to choose between a speech pipeline and a speech to speech model, budget the delay of every turn, and handle recognition errors, voices and pronunciation. Manage turn-taking, barge-in and back-channel sounds, and let the agent look up and book on a live call with hold, read-back and confirm enforced in code. Connect a phone line with the notices callers are owed, test with scripted hard callers and p95 delay, and keep payments, identity and cloned voices safe. Follow a made-up dental group as it builds a booking line, then build and test it yourself in a free lab with Python, Groq’s free plan or a no-key mock mode, and an optional browser voice call with Pipecat.