OpenAI API Now Supports Building Voice Agents

It’s now possible to offer AI-powered voice agents in applications via an OpenAI API, the company announced this week.

The API now makes it possible to offer customizable voice agents via new speech-to-text and text-to-speech audio models in the API, the company said.

OpenAI is also introducing a new text-to-speech model with better “steerability,” which is the ability to guide or control an AI system’s behavior and output according to human intentions or specific objectives. So, developers can instruct the text-to-speech model to…