Agent skill · vasilyu1983
ai-voice-bots
Builds production voice bots and IVR with Python STT/TTS pipelines. Use when designing telephony, streaming audio, latency budgets, or voice quality monitoring.
What it needs
About 9k tokens when loaded.
What this skill does
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 ../ai-agents/SKILL.md WebSocket/SSE infrastructure (non-voice) ../software-realtime/SKILL.md Voice/multimodal reference material ../ai-agents/references/voice-multimodal-agents.md Quick Reference Need Default Notes ------ --------- ------- Choose telephony platform references/telephony-platform-selection.md Twilio, Vapi, Bland.ai, Retell, Telnyx, Vonage Design voice pipeline references/voice-pipeline-architecture.md STT→LLM→TTS streaming, codec selection Build with Pipecat references/pipecat-patterns.md Processors, transports, production deployment Build with L …
How to use it
Reference it in AdaL, Claude Code, Cursor or any coding agent — nothing to install:
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