ai-voice-bots

# AI Voice Bots Use this skill to build, ship, and tune voice bots — phone IVR, real-time speech agents, and voice-first customer interactions — using pure Python frameworks. This skill owns the voice-specific pipeline: STT, TTS, telephony platforms, latency engineering, and voice quality. For conversation design, persona, and escalation patterns, use `ai-bot-builder`. Default posture for Jul 2026: Pipecat as default framework, sub-700ms total turn latency, streaming STT→LLM→TTS pipeline, deterministic VAD, and voice quality metrics from day one. S2S (speech-to-speech) via OpenAI Realtime API or Gemini Live is available as a latency-first alternative — see Framework Selection and `references/s2s-and-native-voice-apis.md`. ## When to Use This Skill - Building a voice bot for phone, IVR, or real-time speech - Choosing a telephony platform (Twilio, Vapi, Bland.ai, Retell, Telnyx, Vonage) - Choosing a voice pipeline framework (Pipecat, LiveKit Agents, Vocode) - Engineering latency budgets for voice (TTFB, total turn latency) - Selecting and configuring STT/TTS providers (Deepgram, ElevenLabs, Cartesia, Azure) - Monitoring voice quality (MOS, WER, call completion rate) - Designing IVR flows with DTMF and voice hybrid - Building outbound dialing campaigns ## When NOT to Use This Skill | Need | Route to | |------|----------| | Bot conversation design, persona, escalation | `ai-bot-builder` | | Text-only bot architecture | `ai-bot-builder` | | General agent architecture | [`.....