OpenAI Realtime API: Voice Agents End-to-End
Engineers building interactive voice applications who understand REST APIs and want to move beyond text-in/text-out to low-latency, production-grade speech-to-speech agents.
What you'll learn
- Build a speech-to-speech voice agent using the OpenAI Realtime API over WebSocket and WebRTC transports
- Implement reliable function calling and tool execution within a live voice session
- Engineer latency out of your voice pipeline using interrupt handling, turn detection, and partial audio streaming
- Deploy and scale a production voice agent with observability, cost controls, and compliance guardrails
- Choose the right voice model (Realtime API vs Cartesia vs Kokoro) based on cost, quality, and latency trade-offs
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