Tools in Voice AI

The fastest way to break a voice agent is a tool that takes two seconds.

In text, a 2s delay is invisible. In a live conversation, it reads as a dropped call, and the user starts talking over your agent.

So tools inside a live agent have to feel instant:
• Fast actions (play, pause, skip) → execute immediately
• Slow actions → acknowledge out loud, then run in the background

That’s the whole difference between an agent that feels alive and one that keeps going silent.

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