What Bandwidth Voice AI does
Bandwidth Voice AI is Bandwidth's voice API offering for teams building voice agents, AI-driven call flows and platforms that run voice at scale. It is aimed at developers, voice AI platforms, contact centers and resellers, in sectors such as healthcare and finance. Features include two-way media streaming over WebSocket to an AI model or third-party tools, call control over HTTPS with SDKs for Node.js, Python and other languages, text-to-speech, real-time transcription, recording, conferencing, IVR and answering machine detection, plus a Voice Adapter for Twilio syntax and a pre-flight checker for migrations. Pricing is usage based and billed in 6-second increments, such as $0.004 per minute for bidirectional media streaming, with free sandbox credits to start.
How Bandwidth Voice AI compares with its closest alternatives
1 of the 5 closest alternatives has a free plan; Bandwidth Voice AI does not. All 5 offer an API, as Bandwidth Voice AI does. Bandwidth Voice AI was founded in 2005; the alternatives were founded between 2009 and 2023. Bandwidth Voice AI is based in Raleigh, United States; 2 of the 4 alternatives with a known headquarters are in the United States too, and the others in the United Kingdom and India.