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Hey

I’m Sagar, co-founder of VideoSDK.

I'm beyond excited to share what we've been building: VideoSDK Real-Time AI Agents. Today, voice is becoming the new UI.

We expect agents to feel human, to understand us, respond instantly, and work seamlessly across web, mobile, and even telephony. But, to achieve this, developers have to stitch together: STT, LLM, TTS, glued with HTTP endpoints and, a prayer.

This most often results in agents that sound robotic, hallucinations and fail in product environments without observability. So we built something to solve that.

Now, we are open sourcing it!

Here’s what it offers:

- Global WebRTC infra with <80ms latency - Native turn detection, VAD, and noise suppression - Modular pipelines for STT, LLM, TTS, avatars, and - real-time model switching - Built-in RAG + memory for grounding and hallucination resistance - SDKs for web, mobile, Unity, IoT, and telephony — no glue code needed - Agent Cloud to scale infinitely with one-click deployments — or self-host with full control Think of it like moving from a walkie-talkie to a modern network tower that handles thousands of calls.

VideoSDK gives you the infrastructure to build voice agents that actually work in the real world, at scale.

I'd love your thoughts and questions! Happy to dive deep into architecture, use cases, or crazy edge cases you've been struggling with.



Good! Is there way to prompt the TTS output tone like elevenlabs https://elevenlabs.io/docs/best-practices/prompting/eleven-v...

We are building AI companions, the tone prompting would be great


Hey bigcat12345678, great question!

Yes, with VideoSDK's Real-Time AI Agents, you can control the TTS output tone, either via prompt engineering (if your TTS provider supports it, like ElevenLabs) or by integrating custom models that support tonal control directly. Our modular pipeline architecture makes it easy to plug in providers like ElevenLabs and pass tone/style prompts dynamically per utterance.

We actually support ElevenLabs out of the box. You can check out the integration details here: https://docs.videosdk.live/ai_agents/plugins/tts/eleven-labs

So if you're building AI companions and want them to sound calm, excited, empathetic, etc., you can absolutely prompt for those tones in real time, or even switch voices or tones mid-conversation based on context or user emotion.

Let us know what you're building. Happy to dive deeper into tone control setups or help debug a specific flow!


Got to hn frontpage and ignore comments on the post...


and made three accounts to add more praise lol. This should be removed.


Is this running in production at any site/company?.


Yes, VideoSDK Real-Time AI Agents are already running in production with several partners across different domains — from healthcare assistants to customer support agents and AI companions. These deployments are handling real user interactions at scale, across web, mobile, and even telephony.

If you're curious about specific use cases or want to explore how it can fit into your product, happy to share more details or walk through an example.


Do you watermark the output to enable fraud detection?




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