AssemblyAI details Agora voice-agent tutorial with STT, TTS and barge-in
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AssemblyAI has published a technical tutorial showing how to build a server-side voice agent for an Agora RTC channel using its speech-to-text, LLM Gateway and text-to-speech stack. The guide is centered on a Python bot that joins an Agora call like any other participant, listens to the caller and speaks replies back into the channel, with barge-in handled in the application loop. In the tutorial published on 29 Oct 2026, AssemblyAI says the bot combines Agora's WebRTC transport with three AssemblyAI layers on one API key: Universal-3.6 Pro Realtime for streaming speech-to-text, LLM Gateway for model responses, and AssemblyAI Text-to-Speech…
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