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Voice is the future of human-computer interaction.

It is fully customizable, letting you select, design or evenclone the voiceit uses.

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it’s possible for you to also add your own knowledge base.

For example, if you’re making a math tutor you could include access to SAT prep guides.

The most useful aspect is being able to set the underlying brain, or language model.

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UnlikeChatGPT Advanced Voicethis is not native speech-to-speech.

The AI responds in text and ElevenLabs voices it up using its existing voice models.

This happens so fast it may as well be speech-to-speech.

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With Conversational AI, ElevenLabs is directly competing with OpenAI’s Realtime API offering.

This could be in a call center fielding phone calls or something less obvious like learning products.

Creating a voice assistant

Anyone with an ElevenLabs account can create a conversational agent.

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It comes with four default templates that can be fully customized.

The fourth is a video game wizard with a mysterious voice.

It uses Gemini 1.5 flash for speed and price reasons.

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Making a call to the agent costs 500 credits per minute during development.

The starter plan gives you 30,000 credits for $4 per month.

Overall it is a simple process to set up.

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you’re able to also import Twilio phone numbers and hook it up to your voice assistant.

For fun, I created a customer support agent named Ryan that uses a clone of my own voice.

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