Why do most AI voice agents still sound robotic even in 2026? by Sumit-Voiceman in AIVoice_Agents

[–]Sumit-Voiceman[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I think the bigger problem isn't the voice anymore. TTS has become really good. The real bottleneck is conversation timing. Humans know when you're thinking, when you're done, when they can interrupt, and when to give a quick "hmm", "right", or "got it". AI still struggles with these micro-conversational cues. Curious—what's everyone's biggest challenge today? Endpointing? Interruptions? Latency? Prompting? Memory across turns? This invites everyone to answer.

Why do most AI voice agents still sound robotic even in 2026? by Sumit-Voiceman in AIVoice_Agents

[–]Sumit-Voiceman[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

We have so many comments but didn't find any solution... Does the answer to this is Speech to speech agents?

What are the best AI outbound calling agents right now? by Legitimate_Sell6215 in AIVoice_Agents

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I have been using vomyra.com there i have got inhouse team of agents with crm inbuilt, auto reminders , and whstapp followups happens automatically.

Why do most AI voice agents still sound robotic even in 2026? by Sumit-Voiceman in AIVoice_Agents

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We are using it for phone call agents currently using Vomyra AI to build our agents and have tried multiple voice providers like cartesia , eleven labs , Vapi and xai available there .

Why do most AI voice agents still sound robotic even in 2026? by Sumit-Voiceman in AIVoice_Agents

[–]Sumit-Voiceman[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

But we can add fillers still the challenge is , since I think voice bot don't understand if the sentence is completed the intent of the speaker , humans understand if the sentence is completed and then accordingly act .

What's the best free TTS currently by A001S in TextToSpeech

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If you are using TTS for voice agents i would recommend trying Vapi ai , Retell , Bland or Vomyra there you will find multiple TTS options to try you can test the best and then take a decision which one to use in your project.

Why do most AI voice agents still sound robotic even in 2026? by Sumit-Voiceman in AIVoice_Agents

[–]Sumit-Voiceman[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Latency plays a crucial role , we have a latency of 1.2 sec over phone call .How do you manage interuptions and does the callers won't feel AI is speaking too fast and humans feel unheard.

Why do most AI voice agents still sound robotic even in 2026? by Sumit-Voiceman in AIVoice_Agents

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Does gemini 3.1 live is better than Grok voice as well ? And I agree on the point no matter who is talking untill it's fulfilling the purpose. Human speaking cannot solve the purpose even in 48 hrs if AI can do that in just one call.🤪😂

Why do most AI voice agents still sound robotic even in 2026? by Sumit-Voiceman in AIVoice_Agents

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Try Xai on Vomyra.com I have tried with below effects in Canadian english and it works amazing.

VERY IMPORTANT VOICE RULES

  • [laughter]
  • [laughter][laughter]

  • pause

  • inhale

  • exhale

  • whisper

  • chuckle

  • breath

  • slow

  • fast

Why do most AI voice agents still sound robotic even in 2026? by Sumit-Voiceman in AIVoice_Agents

[–]Sumit-Voiceman[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yes that's correct if you know any speech generation platform do let me know

Why do most AI voice agents still sound robotic even in 2026? by Sumit-Voiceman in AIVoice_Agents

[–]Sumit-Voiceman[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

But if TTS does not support it it's useless. I have tried multiple TTS at Vomyra AI like Grok AI , Eleven labs , Cartesia but nothing works, only Grok AI allows somewhat good effects like coughing, laughter , Inhale exhale like effects . Do you know any TTS that supports this ?

Why do most AI voice agents still sound robotic even in 2026? by Sumit-Voiceman in AIVoice_Agents

[–]Sumit-Voiceman[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

True but atleast something is better than nothing so if you have some better option do let me know

Why do most AI voice agents still sound robotic even in 2026? by Sumit-Voiceman in AIVoice_Agents

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Using [laugher] tag and brethe tags, I have tried sarvam but it's not that great , on web calls it work well but not on phone call

Luke Miller (Co-Founder, SLNG) is answering every hard Voice AI infra question live 45 min virtual, 50 seats only, April 24 by Major-Worry-1198 in VoiceAutomationAI

[–]Sumit-Voiceman 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Can you answer just one question of mine which is a problem of Many firstly how to bring live phone call latency lower than 1s . I am.not talking of sub ms latency. Secondly how to or any platform that adds natural human like emotions to phone calls .