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Real-Time Voice AI for Inbound Customer Support

Real-Time Voice AI for Inbound Customer Support

A real-time voice agent for inbound customer support — sub-500ms latency, natural turn-taking, deep integration with the existing CRM — reducing load on human agents by ~40%.

01. Challenge

Inbound support volume grew faster than the call-centre team could scale. Existing IVR menus frustrated users.

Standard speech-to-text + LLM + text-to-speech pipelines felt robotic because of multi-second turn latency. The team needed a voice agent that felt like a real conversation, could handle the common 60–70% of calls end-to-end, and hand off cleanly to a human when needed.

02. Solution

A streaming voice pipeline (streaming ASR → streaming LLM → streaming TTS) with full-duplex turn-taking, barge-in support and aggressive partial-result handling.

The agent is wired into the support knowledge base for grounded answers and into the CRM for account-level actions. Calls that need a human are warm-transferred with a structured handoff summary.

03. Results

  • < 500 msLatency
    End-to-end conversational turn latency
  • ~40%Load reduction
    Inbound support load handled without human agents
  • SeamlessHandoff
    Warm-transfer with structured context for human agents

04. Constraints

  • End-to-end latency budget: < 500 ms (perceived as "real conversation")
  • Must handle interruptions and back-channels naturally — not walkie-talkie style
  • Conversations span multiple intents (billing, support, account changes) in one call
  • Must hand off to a human agent mid-call with full context

05. Architecture

Streaming ASR transcribes audio in real time; partial transcripts feed a streaming LLM that begins generating before the user finishes speaking; streaming TTS plays back with low-latency turn arbitration.

Retrieval over the support knowledge base grounds answers; a tool layer wires into the CRM for account lookups and ticket creation.

A human-handoff path warm-transfers calls with a structured summary so the human picks up mid-context.

06. Tech Stack

PythonGoStreaming ASRStreaming TTSOpenAIOpen-weight LLMWebRTCTwilioRedisPostgreSQLKafkaKubernetes

Project Info

  • Client:Saby
  • Service:AI Agents
  • Timeline:14 weeks
  • Industry:technology