AssemblyAI and LiveKit outline production voice agent stack

AssemblyAI has published a tutorial showing how developers can build a browser-ready voice agent on LiveKit using one AssemblyAI API key for speech-to-text, language model access and text-to-speech. The post, published on Thu, 29 Oct 2026, frames the setup as a way to reduce a multi-vendor voice stack to two main systems: LiveKit for transport and orchestration, and AssemblyAI for the models behind the conversation. According to AssemblyAI, the reference agent uses LiveKit Agents to handle WebRTC transport, room participation and turn-taking, while AssemblyAI supplies Universal-3.6 Pro Realtime for speech-to-text, the LLM Gateway for model access and assemblyai-tts-1 for synthetic…

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