Voice agents that answer on the first ring, hold a real conversation — interruptions, accents, two languages in one sentence — and finish the job in your systems before the call ends.
And when a person should take it, they pick up already knowing everything that was said.
Sub-second
Turn target
English & Indic
Mid-sentence
Warm transfer
Never cold
On the call
Answered on the first ring.
Interruptions, accents, two languages in one sentence — and the job finished in your systems before the call ends.
What the caller experiences
Ask the harder questions.
Select a moment in the call to see the difference.
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“I didn’t catch that. Press 1.”
Speech systems fail on the things every real call contains — an accent, a noisy street, someone switching between Hindi and English mid-sentence, a caller who interrupts or changes their mind halfway through.
The system works in the demo and fails on the actual customer base
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With voice agentsNext
Interruptions, accents, two languages at once
The agent can be interrupted and stops talking, the way a person does. It handles regional accents, background noise, hesitation and code-switching between English and Indic languages within a single sentence.
Callers stop adjusting how they speak to suit the machine
A caller who switches from English to Hindi mid-sentence is not an edge case in India — it is the median call. The agent follows the switch without being told to, and answers in the language the caller is actually using.
What you are judged on
What a service line is judged on.
Calls answered
Every call picked up on the first ring, including the ones currently arriving at 2am, during the Monday morning spike, and while your team is at lunch.
Resolved in the call
The share of calls that end with the task actually done rather than converted into a ticket, a callback promise or a link to a website.
Cost per conversation
Routine volume handled without adding seats, so headcount goes to the calls where judgement, negotiation or empathy genuinely change the outcome.
Where it earns its place
Not every call should be automated.
These are the ones where a caller wants an answer rather than a relationship — and where waiting is the whole complaint.
Inbound support
Status, balances, policy questions and the twenty things that make up most of your queue.
Booking & rescheduling
Appointments and deliveries checked against live availability and confirmed on the call.
Order & delivery status
Looked up in the system of record and explained, rather than read off a static script.
Qualification & callbacks
Inbound enquiries qualified against your criteria and routed to the right person with notes.
Reminders & collections
Payment reminders and arrangements handled in the caller's language, within your policy.
After-hours and overflow
Runs alongside your team as overflow, or takes the whole line when nobody is on shift.
Real-time
The 700 milliseconds that decide it.
Past about a second of silence, a caller assumes the line has dropped and starts talking again. Everything else — the reasoning, the integrations, the voice — only matters if the turn closes inside that window.
Interruption
Talk over it and it stops, mid-word — the single behaviour that separates a conversation from a recording.
Silence
A pause to think is not treated as the end of a turn, so callers are not cut off while deciding.
Refusal
Outside its authority it says so plainly and transfers, rather than improvising an answer.
Where a turn’s time goes700ms
typical budget for a turn that includes a systems lookup
Speech recognition120ms
Understanding & policy180ms
Systems lookup210ms
Speech synthesis130ms
Network & telephony60ms
Recognition, reasoning and speech all run streaming and overlapped — the agent begins forming its reply while the caller is still finishing the sentence, which is what keeps the total inside the window.
Indicative budget for a turn including a systems lookup. Actual figures depend on your telephony, integrations and deployment region.
This is for you
This is for you if
Calls queue, or go unanswered outside working hours
The same handful of questions consumes most of the team's day
Callers repeat themselves before reaching the right person
Volume spikes you cannot reasonably staff for
If none of these are true we are probably not the right call yet, and we will say so. Describe how your highest-volume call goes today — what the caller wants, where it stalls, what the agent has to look up.