Agent skill · creative production · sickn33
voice-agents
Voice agents represent the frontier of AI interaction - humans
Why this skill is useful
Provides domain-specific knowledge on voice agent architectures and integration patterns that the AI wouldn't reliably generate on its own.
What it needs
Requires assemblyai, deepgram, elevenlabs, openai installed locally. About 3k tokens when loaded. Last updated 2026-08-07. 44,571 stars on the source repository.
What this skill does
Voice Agents Voice agents represent the frontier of AI interaction - humans speaking naturally with AI systems. The challenge isn't just speech recognition and synthesis, it's achieving natural conversation flow with sub-800ms latency while handling interruptions, background noise, and emotional nuance. This skill covers two architectures: speech-to-speech (OpenAI Realtime API, one low-latency architecture option) and pipeline (STT→LLM→TTS, more control, easier to debug). Key insight: latency is the constraint. Humans expect responses in 500ms. Every millisecond matters. No market-adoption statistic or universal latency benchmark is established by this skill. Detailed Guide Read the detailed guide before executing this skill. It retains the complete procedure and reference material. Treat its safety, prerequisites, and validation requirements as mandatory. For focused work, load the relevant sections; for end-to-end work, read the guide completely. Legacy Pipeline Sketch (not a production implementation) Optimization Tips: Start TTS while LLM still generating (streaming) Pre-compute first response segment during user speech Use Flash/turbo models for latency Voice Activity Detection Pattern Detect when user starts/stops speaking When to use: All voice agents need VAD for turn-taking VOICE ACTIVITY DETECTION (VAD): When to Use User mentions or implies: voice agent User mentions or implies: speech to text User mentions or implies: text to speech User mentions or implies: whisper User mentions or implies: elevenlabs User mentions or implies: deepgram User mentions or implies: realtime api User mentions or implies: voice assistant User mentions or implies: voice ai User mentions or implies: conversational ai User mentions or implies: tts User mentions or implies: stt User mentions or implies: asr Limitations Use this skill only when the task clearly matches the scope described above. …
How to use it
Reference it in AdaL, Claude Code, Cursor or any coding agent — nothing to install:
@skills sickn33/voice-agents