Build a Voice Agent in 5 Minutes with AssemblyAI’s Voice Agent API

Dev.to AI
Generative AI NLP

No separate STT, LLM, or TTS services to wire up. The AssemblyAI Voice Agent API handles the entire pipeline server-side: speech recognition, the language model that decides what to say, and the voice that speaks it back. Turn detection, barge-in, and tool calling are built in. Why one WebSocket beats a multi-service pipeline A traditional voice agent needs you to wire up at least three providers - a streaming STT, an LLM, and a TTS - and orchestrate the audio routing between them yourself.