voice-agents

voice-agents is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from beel-collab/presets.dev. It costs 16 tokens per session (6,300 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guide to building voice agents, software that listens to spoken language and responds aloud. It covers direct speech-to-speech systems and pipelines that separately handle speech recognition, language processing, and speech generation.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when designing or improving conversational voice software, choosing between the two architectures, planning speech input and output, and handling interruptions, noise, and conversation timing.
Why use it?
Spoken conversations feel unnatural when responses are slow, interruptions fail, or background noise causes problems. The guide focuses on response delay, turn-taking, interruptions, and voice activity detection.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/beel-collab/presets.dev/voice-agents
Any agent
npx skills add beel-collab/presets.dev --skill voice-agents
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/beel-collab/presets.dev

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 16 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 6,300 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5 $0.00016 $0.06300
Opus 5 $0.00008 $0.03150
Sonnet 5 $0.00003 $0.01260
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00630

Measured 3d ago against content hash 1b2ace33560a, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

voice-agents scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 3d ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

claude/skills/ai-ml/voice-agents/SKILL.md · 988 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 988 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Voice Agents

Voice agents represent the frontier of AI interaction - humans speaking naturally with AI systems. The challenge isn't just speech recognition and synthesis, it's achieving natural conversation flow with sub-800ms latency while handling interruptions, background noise, and emotional nuance.

This skill covers two architectures: speech-to-speech (OpenAI Realtime API, lowest latency, most natural) and pipeline (STT→LLM→TTS, more control, easier to debug). Key insight: latency is the constraint. Humans expect responses in 500ms. Every millisecond matters.

84% of organizations are increasing voice AI budgets in 2025. This is the year voice agents go mainstream.

Principles

  • Latency is the constraint - target <800ms end-to-end
  • Jitter (variance) matters as much as absolute latency
  • VAD quality determines conversation flow
  • Interruption handling makes or breaks the experience
  • Start with focused MVP, iterate based on real conversations
  • Combine best-in-class components (Deepgram STT + ElevenLabs TTS)

Capabilities

  • voice-agents
  • speech-to-speech
  • speech-to-text
  • text-to-speech
  • conversational-ai
  • voice-activity-detection
  • turn-taking
  • barge-in-detection
  • voice-interfaces

Scope

  • phone-system-integration → backend
  • audio-processing-dsp → audio-specialist
  • music-generation → audio-specialist
  • accessibility-compliance → accessibility-specialist

Tooling

Speech_to_speech

  • OpenAI Realtime API - When: Lowest latency, most natural conversation Note: gpt-4o-realtime-preview, native voice, sub-500ms
  • Pipecat - When: Open-source voice orchestration Note: Daily-backed, enterprise-grade, modular

Speech_to_text

  • OpenAI Whisper - When: Highest accuracy, multilingual Note: gpt-4o-transcribe for best results
  • Deepgram Nova-3 - When: Production workloads, 54% lower WER Note: 150-184ms TTFT, 90%+ accuracy on noisy audio
  • AssemblyAI - When: Real-time streaming, speaker diarization Note: Good accuracy-latency balance

Text_to_speech

Read the full file on GitHub · 988 lines

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 3d ago First seen · 988 lines · 16 tokens per session scan A 1b2ace33560a

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voice-agents is a skill published in the GitHub repository beel-collab/presets.dev (2 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 16 tokens to every session and 6,300 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-31.

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