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Roark Live Bench · Suite v1.3 · Sweep of 23 October 2026

Voice AI models, ranked on live phone calls.

Every speech-to-text, language model and text-to-speech model, run in every combination on the same real call to the same agent. A model is ranked on every stack it runs in; the stacks are the evidence.

661 stacks published13,990 scored callsPublished at 20 scored calls

Our picks

Task completionMedian responseCost per minute

The read

  • 430 of 642 cascades complete the task in at least 90% of calls, and the top 10 sit within 1 point of each other. What separates the top stacks is speed and cost.
  • Median response time runs from 0.5 s to 6.0 s on the same agent and the same caller, a spread of 5.5 s that comes entirely from the models behind it.
  • No stack wins everything. The fastest, OpenAI Whisper-1 + Google Gemini 3.8 Flash + OpenAI TTS-1 HD at 0.5 s, ranks 530 of 642 on task completion; the most complete is Speechmatics Linden-1 (own VAD) + OpenAI GPT-6.1 Sol + OpenAI TTS-1 HD at 99%.
  • The language model matters most: swapping it moves task completion by 7 points, against 3 for the speech engine and 2 for the transcriber.

Cascade vs Speech-to-Speech

The first choice to make. A cascade chains three models: one transcribes, one decides what to say, one speaks. A speech-to-speech model does all three at once. Both run the same agent on the same calls here.

  • Cascades lead on task completion, tool use and time to first word; speech-to-speech leads on response time and cost per task. Neither wins outright, so the right choice depends on what your calls need.
  • The biggest difference is task completion: 95% for cascades against 77% for speech-to-speech.
CascadeSpeech-to-speech
Task completionTool useTime to first wordResponse timeCost per task255075100
MeasureCascadeSpeech-to-speech
Task completion
95% (leads)77%
Tool use
72% (leads)55%
Time to first word
0.7 s (leads)1.3 s
Response time
3.6 s2.6 s (leads)
Cost per task
$0.15$0.15 (leads)

The three strongest of each, averaged. Cascades: Speechmatics Linden-1 (own VAD) + OpenAI GPT-6.1 Sol + Cartesia Sonic-3.5; AssemblyAI Universal-3.6 Pro + OpenAI GPT-6.1 Sol + Rime Coda; Speechmatics Linden-1 (own VAD) + OpenAI GPT-6.1 Sol + Rime Coda. Speech-to-speech: grok-voice-think-fast-2.0; gemini-3.8-live; amazon.nova-2-sonic-v1:0. Each measure is scored 0 to 100 on its own scale, further out is better; the table gives the same figures in their own units.

Which to use

  • Choose speech-to-speech when the pause matters more than the outcome: short transactional calls, callers who interrupt, queues where every half second costs you callers. Expect to pay more, and choose the model carefully (gpt-live-1 (backend gpt-6.1-sol) leads here).
  • Choose a cascade when the call has to complete, when cost matters, or when you need to see which stage to fix. It is 13 points ahead on task completion here.
  • Costs are what each stack’s providers charged for these calls, at the rates in effect when they ran. Telephony and hosting are not included.

Speech-to-Text

The transcriber turns the caller's speech into text. It decides what the agent thinks it heard, and nothing after it can start until it finishes.

  • AssemblyAI Universal-3.6 Pro, AssemblyAI Universal-3.5 Pro, Deepgram Nova-3 and Speechmatics Enhanced (realtime) are level: none leads by more than the margin of error. Of them, AssemblyAI Universal-3.6 Pro costs least, at $0.030 a call. Avoid Speechmatics Linden-1 (own VAD): last on semantic word error rate (2.2%).
  • Speechmatics Linden-1 (own VAD) delivers its transcript in 0.49 s, OpenAI Whisper-1 in 1.93 s: 1.44 s added to every turn of the call.
  • AssemblyAI Universal-3.6 Pro is the most accurate: it changes the meaning of 0.9% of the caller's words, against 2.2% for Speechmatics Linden-1 (own VAD).
  • In 341 of 648 cascades the transcriber is the slowest step of the turn, whichever model runs it.

Open a model to see where it ranks and the stacks it works best in.

Language model

The language model decides what the agent says and does. It has the most influence on whether the task gets done, and usually takes the largest share of each turn.

  • Pick OpenAI GPT-6.1 Sol: it leads on task completion (95%), tool use (71%) and instruction following (4.2 / 5). If speed matters more, Anthropic Claude Haiku 4.5 is the quickest, at 0.36 s, and completes 91%. Avoid OpenAI GPT-5.1: last on tool use (33%) and instruction following (4.1 / 5).
  • Anthropic Claude Haiku 4.5 starts answering in 0.36 s, Google Gemini 3.8 Flash in 1.47 s: 1.11 s added to every turn of the call.
  • OpenAI GPT-6.1 Sol uses its tools most reliably: it handles its tools without a mistake on 71% of calls, against 33% for OpenAI GPT-5.1.
  • In 161 of 648 cascades the language model is the slowest step of the turn, whichever model runs it.
7OpenAI GPT-4o44 / 100

Open a model to see where it ranks and the stacks it works best in.

Text-to-Speech

The speech engine is the voice the caller hears, and the last step before they hear anything.

  • Cartesia Sonic-3.6, Cartesia Sonic-3.5 and ElevenLabs v4 Turbo are level: none leads by more than the margin of error. Of them, Cartesia Sonic-3.5 costs least, at $0.165 a call. Avoid OpenAI TTS-1 HD: last on readback accuracy (80%), word error rate (8.7%) and time to first audio byte (2.09 s).
  • ElevenLabs v4 Turbo starts speaking in 0.11 s, OpenAI TTS-1 HD in 2.09 s: 1.97 s added to every turn of the call.
  • Cartesia Sonic-3.6 is the most accurate: it reads codes, amounts and dates back correctly 87% of the time, against 80% for OpenAI TTS-1 HD.
  • Cartesia Sonic-3.6 sounds the most human: 3.8 / 5, against 3.4 / 5 for ElevenLabs Flash v2.5.
  • In 99 of 648 cascades the speech engine is the slowest step of the turn, most often with OpenAI TTS-1 HD (54 of them).
5Rime Coda67 / 100
8OpenAI TTS-155 / 100

Open a model to see where it ranks and the stacks it works best in.

Speech-to-Speech models

One model listens, reasons and speaks, so there is nothing to swap and no stages to split. Each is judged on the whole call, with the same calls and the same scoring as every cascade.

  • The model matters as much as the architecture: gpt-live-1 (backend gpt-6.1-sol) completes 86% of tasks, ElevenLabs Realtime v1 Mini 42%.
  • grok-voice-think-fast-2.0 answers in 2.1 s against 4.1 s for gemini-2.5-flash-native-audio-preview-12-2025.
  • Price varies as much as quality: $0.06 per completed task for amazon.nova-2-sonic-v1:0, $0.69 for gpt-realtime-2.

Every stack

The evidence behind the model boards: each combination on its own calls, scored on the same recipe. Open a stack for its full report, every figure it was scored on and the calls behind them.

AssemblyAIOpenAICartesiaGoogleDeepgramRimeElevenLabsAnthropicSpeechmaticsxAIUltravoxAmazoneach bar split by what every figure earned of its weight
0255075100

Each score carries its 95% margin of error. A rank is the best place a stack could hold once every margin is allowed for, so stacks the calls cannot tell apart share one and are listed by the low end of their margin; hover a rank for the worst place it could hold. 92 stacks are level with the leader: their calls cannot tell them apart. Among them, 31 Google Gemini 3.8 Flash, 29 OpenAI GPT-6.1 Sol, 19 Anthropic Claude Sonnet 5.5, 9 Anthropic Claude Haiku 4.5, 2 OpenAI GPT-4o mini, 1 OpenAI GPT-4.1 and 1 speech-to-speech; 48 AssemblyAI, 23 Deepgram and 20 Speechmatics; 48 Cartesia, 33 ElevenLabs, 9 Rime and 1 OpenAI. A cascade's figures are 25% its own calls and 75% what every other stack shows about its transcriber, language model and voice.

Not ranked here for missing data: Speechmatics Linden-1 + OpenAI GPT-6.1 Sol + OpenAI TTS-1 HD (no response time or tool use or human-likeness or readback accuracy or voice consistency).

See all 654 stacks

By industry

Each industry ranked on its own calls: the same five callers, its own tasks and tools. A stack has a handful of calls in each, so a cascade is ranked on what its transcriber, language model and voice show across every stack in that industry, and a speech-to-speech model on its own calls there. Pairings show on the main board. Every panel is on one scale, so a bar reads against the other industries as well as its own.

Healthcare

Reschedule an appointment. A patient moves a dermatology appointment around a work schedule, corrects their date of birth, narrows the times twice, and asks about the change fee, parking and insurance.

Home services

Urgent repair: triage and booking. A caller with a burst pipe needs safety advice first, then an emergency visit. The unit on file is out of date, the callback number gets corrected, and the caller pushes for an earlier visit.

Insurance

Report a new auto claim. A driver who was just rear-ended reports a claim, corrects the policy number, spells the other car’s plate, asks about the deductible, a rental and their premium, and needs a tow.

Customer support

Internet outage troubleshooting. A technical caller who has already rebooted the gateway pushes back on scripted steps, wants the line fixed, and asks for a bigger credit for the downtime.

How it works

Every number on this page comes from real phone calls, placed and scored the same way for every stack.

01

Real calls, four industries, five callers

Roark places real phone calls over the public phone network to a reference agent for each of four industries: rescheduling a clinic appointment, booking an urgent home repair, opening an auto insurance claim and fixing an internet outage. Each agent has its own prompt and tools, identical for every stack. The tasks carry the details real calls trip on: a corrected date of birth, a policy number spelled out, a constraint added halfway through.

Every industry is called by the same five simulated callers: a quiet US English line, a Spanish-accented caller on a city street, an Indian English caller in a busy café, a flustered Southern caller with a baby crying, and a fast caller who interrupts over construction noise. They are equally clear about what they want, so a call fails because of the agent, not the caller. Only the models change, so any difference on the board comes from them.

Each caller rings each industry once for a cascade and four times for a speech-to-speech model. A cascade's figures also draw on its parts, heard in dozens of other stacks; a speech-to-speech model has only its own calls, so it takes more of them.

That makes industries comparable over the same callers, and callers over the same tasks, and the board can be re-ranked by either. One caller within one industry is too few calls to judge, so the board never shows it.

655

stacks

20

calls per stack

13,876

calls scored

02

Every model, in every combination

9 transcribers, 8 language models and 9 voices are run in every combination with each other, beside 13 speech-to-speech models. A model's own figures pool every stack it runs in, adjusted for its partners in each one, so every model is compared as if it ran with the same partners. A transcriber's figure rests on hundreds of calls with every language model and every voice, not on one lucky pairing.

That measures a model where it actually works: inside a running agent, on live phone audio, through interruptions, corrections and real turn-taking. A test that feeds a model clean audio files or one prompt at a time never sees any of that.

03

One score, weighted by what matters on a call

Each section ranks on a Roark score. Every figure scores 0 to 100 between two published points: full marks where doing better makes no difference to the caller, zero where the call breaks down. Each then counts at its weight, and the weights follow one order everywhere: whether the caller got what they rang for, then whether the agent got it right, then speed.

A stack, cascade or speech-to-speech, is scored on the outcome and the reply first, then on what each of its components got right on its own calls: the words its transcriber got wrong in a way that changes the meaning, whether its voice read codes and amounts back right, how human it sounded, and whether its tools were handled. A component that leads its section lifts every stack that carries it, by the same recipe for every stack. A figure a stack cannot carry, such as a semantic word error rate for a speech-to-speech model with no transcript, is credited at the field median, so the stack is neither flattered nor punished for it.

On a full sweep each cascade's figure is 25% what its own calls measured and 75% what every other stack shows about its transcriber, language model and voice, fitted across the whole sweep. The split is the same for every stack, so a lucky run does not lead and a stack's score does not move with how noisy its calls were. In an industry a stack has a handful of calls, so a cascade's figure there is what its transcriber, language model and voice show across every stack in that industry's calls, and a speech-to-speech model's is its own calls there. How a particular pairing beats or misses its parts shows on the main board, where each stack has all of its calls. The best overall pick, on the main board and in each industry, is the stack whose score is highest at the low end of its margin of error, so a few lucky calls cannot carry a stack past one whose score rests on hundreds. Stacks that share a rank are listed the same way, so the first row is the pick.

That order comes from real-world voice agent calls, where getting the conversation right predicts how a call ends more strongly than speed does. The latency points come from the same calls: replying faster than about 2 seconds made no measurable difference, and calls went measurably worse once the agent took more than about 3 seconds to reply.

Stacks and speech-to-speech

FigureWeightFull marksZero
Task completionscenario_adherence_check21%100%80%
An agent that completes fewer than four calls in five is not fit to deploy. On a full sweep, a cascade's figure is 25% what its own calls (20 or more) measured and 75% what every other stack shows about its transcriber, language model and voice, the same split for every stack, so a lucky run does not lead. Where the sweep is too small for that, and for a speech-to-speech model, the figure is the stack's own. In an industry a stack has a handful of calls, so a cascade's figure there is what its transcriber, language model and voice show across every stack in that industry's calls, and a speech-to-speech model's is its own calls there. How a particular pairing beats or misses its parts shows on the main board, where each stack has all of its calls.
Response timeresponse_time17%2.0 s6.0 s
In real calls, replying faster than 2 s made no measurable difference, and calls went worse past 3 s.
Instruction followinginstruction_follow13%5.0 / 53.0 / 5
Every model scores between 3 and 5 on the judge's 1 to 5 scale, so that is the range.
Semantic word error ratestt_semantic_word_error_rate13%0.5%3%
At 0.5% the best transcribers change the meaning of one word in two hundred on phone audio; at 3% one word in thirty sends the agent the wrong way.
Tool usetool_use13%100%50%
An agent that mishandles its tools on half its calls cannot be trusted with the systems it runs on.
Human-likenessvoice_human_likeness8%4.5 / 52.5 / 5
4.5 out of 5 is close to a person on the phone; 2.5 sounds plainly synthetic.
Time to first wordtime_to_first_word4%1.0 s4.0 s
A greeting within 1 s sounds natural; 4 s of silence sounds like a dead line.
Readback accuracytts_entity_readback_accuracy4%100%60%
Reading a code, amount or date wrong breaks the task it was for; the weakest voices get two in five wrong.
Word error ratetts_word_error_rate4%2%12%
At 2% the voice says what it was given; at 12% one word in eight comes out wrong.
Voice consistencyvoice_consistency_check4%100%80%
A voice that changes speaker on one call in five is not one a business can put its name to.

Shown, not scored: Turn budget, Barge-in handlingbarge_in_yield_appropriateness

Counted only with price factored in: Cost per task

Language model

FigureWeightFull marksZero
Task completionscenario_adherence_check36%100%80%
An agent that completes fewer than four calls in five is not fit to deploy.
Tool usetool_use27%100%50%
An agent that mishandles its tools on half its calls cannot be trusted with the systems it runs on.
Instruction followinginstruction_follow18%5.0 / 53.0 / 5
Every model scores between 3 and 5 on the judge's 1 to 5 scale, so that is the range.
Time to first tokenllm_time_to_first_token18%0.50 s2.00 s
Under 0.5 s is not noticeable; at 2 s the first token alone takes two thirds of the 3 s past which real calls go worse.

Shown, not scored: Prompt cache hitsllm_prompt_cache_hit_rate

Counted only with price factored in: Cost per call

Speech-to-Text

FigureWeightFull marksZero
Semantic word error ratestt_semantic_word_error_rate71%0.5%3%
At 0.5% the best transcribers change the meaning of one word in two hundred on phone audio; at 3% one word in thirty sends the agent the wrong way.
Time to final transcriptstt_time_to_final_transcript29%1.00 s2.50 s
The fastest transcribers finish in about 1 s; past 2.5 s the transcript alone uses most of a natural reply time.

Shown, not scored: Word error ratestt_word_error_rate

Counted only with price factored in: Cost per call

Text-to-Speech

FigureWeightFull marksZero
Readback accuracytts_entity_readback_accuracy32%100%60%
Reading a code, amount or date wrong breaks the task it was for; the weakest voices get two in five wrong.
Word error ratetts_word_error_rate21%2%12%
At 2% the voice says what it was given; at 12% one word in eight comes out wrong.
Time to first audio bytetts_time_to_first_byte21%0.20 s1.50 s
Under 0.2 s is not noticeable; 1.5 s is half the point where calls go worse.
Human-likenessvoice_human_likeness16%4.5 / 52.5 / 5
4.5 out of 5 is close to a person on the phone; 2.5 sounds plainly synthetic.
Voice consistencyvoice_consistency_check11%100%80%
A voice that changes speaker on one call in five is not one a business can put its name to.

Counted only with price factored in: Cost per call

Factor in price and cost takes 25% of the score; the other weights keep their proportions. Price is scored on a log scale, so each doubling costs the same points.

A figure listed as shown, not scored is on the section’s boards and outside its score. Where a section has not collected a scored figure yet, the others share its weight.

04

Every call recorded and judged

Every call is recorded. Judge models score each transcript for the outcome and the conversation, and the timings come from the recording. Every figure links to the calls behind it.

Roark is on both sides of every call: it plays the caller, so it keeps the exact text its caller said, and it runs the agent under test, so it sees what the agent’s transcriber heard and what its model wrote for its voice. The transcript and voice figures come from lining those up, with no hand-made transcript in between. Each carries a margin from the synthetic voice or Roark’s transcriber in the loop. Every model faces the same ones under the same conditions, so the figures compare models on the same calls through the same voice and the same ear, though those slips need not fall evenly on each model. The rates will not match a vendor’s figure on a curated set; read them against each other.

An example: one call from this sweep

Speechmatics Linden-1 (own VAD) + OpenAI GPT-6.1 Sol + OpenAI TTS-1 HD, 23 October 2026. Highlighted turns are the ones that affected a score. Every stack's report links to its calls.

Transcript, verbatim.

Read the full methodology

See how your own agent compares

Roark runs the same kind of calls against your agent, on your scenarios, with the same scoring.

Test your agent

Speechmatics Linden-1 (own VAD) + Anthropic Claude Sonnet 5.5 + OpenAI TTS-1 HD

Cascade

Rank on Roark score

#401of 654 stacks

47 / 100

Leader AssemblyAI Universal-3.6 Pro + OpenAI GPT-6.1 Sol + Cartesia Sonic-3.6, 68 / 100

Where it ranks

Roark score with price51 / 100432 of 654Leader AssemblyAI Universal-3.5 Pro + Google Gemini 3.8 Flash + Cartesia Sonic-3.5, 70 / 100
Task completion96%95 of 655Leader Speechmatics Linden-1 (own VAD) + OpenAI GPT-6.1 Sol + OpenAI TTS-1 HD, 99%
Tool use51%317 of 632Leader AssemblyAI Universal-3.5 Pro + Anthropic Claude Sonnet 5.5 + Cartesia Sonic-3.5, 85%
Time to first word3.0 s589 of 655Leader AssemblyAI Universal-3.5 Pro + OpenAI GPT-6.1 Sol + ElevenLabs Flash v2.5, 0.5 s
Response time4.4 s516 of 654Leader OpenAI Whisper-1 + Google Gemini 3.8 Flash + OpenAI TTS-1 HD, 0.5 s
Barge-in handlingn/aLeader gemini-2.5-flash-native-audio-preview-12-2025 (speech-to-speech), 100%
Turn budgetn/aLeader OpenAI Whisper-1 + Google Gemini 3.8 Flash + OpenAI TTS-1 HD, 0.5 s
Cost per task$0.30362 of 654Leader Speechmatics Linden-1 + OpenAI GPT-4o mini + OpenAI TTS-1, $0.05

Its models

Task completion

Task completion

How much of the caller’s task the agent completed: the share of the scenario’s checks a judge model found met in the transcript, averaged over calls. Before v1.3, the share of calls judged 4 or better out of 5.

20 calls
96%Completed

#95 of 661 on the board · best 99%

Flow adherence

How closely the agent followed the intended conversation flow, judged per call. 5 = fully followed.

20 calls
4.3/ 5avg

med

4

#100 of 661 on the board · best 5.0 / 5

Instruction following

How well the agent stuck to the instructions in its own prompt. 5 = followed throughout.

20 calls
4.2/ 5avg

med

4

#12 of 661 on the board · best 5.0 / 5

Turn-taking

Barge-in handling

When the caller interrupts, how often the agent made the right call: yielding to a real correction, and holding the floor through a filler.

Not scored by this sweep.

Incorrect interruptions

How often the agent interrupted the caller when it should have kept listening.

20 calls
0.00%avg

p50

0.00%

p95

0.00%

#1 of 661 on the board · best 0%

Overtalk

Share of the conversation where both sides were speaking over each other.

20 calls
3.87%avg

p50

1.72%

p95

14.1%

#628 of 661 on the board · best 0.0%

Agent self-cutoffs

Times the agent cut its own sentence off mid-word.

20 calls
0.00per callavg

p50

0.00per call

p95

0.00per call

#1 of 661 on the board · best 0.0 per call

Understanding & effort

Caller effort

How hard the caller had to work: repeating themselves, correcting, re-explaining. 1 = effortless.

Not scored by this sweep.

Repeated-info loops

Times per call the agent re-asked for something the caller had already given.

38 calls
0.95per callavg

p50

1.00per call

p95

2.00per call

#180 of 493 on the board · best 0.0 per call

Speech-to-Text

Semantic word error rate

The caller's words the agent's transcriber got wrong in a way that changes the meaning, as a judge reads each difference.

20 calls
1.70%avg

p50

1.15%

p95

4.45%

#514 of 648 on the board · best 0.0%

Word error rate

The caller's words the agent's transcriber missed, changed or invented, against what the caller actually said.

20 calls
4.53%avg

p50

4.87%

p95

11.0%

#557 of 648 on the board · best 1.2%

Text-to-Speech

Readback accuracy

Share of the codes, amounts, dates and phone numbers the agent wrote that its voice read out correctly. One wrong digit is a miss.

20 calls
77.0%avg

p50

84.9%

p95

100%

#453 of 603 on the board · best 100%

Word error rate

The share of the words the agent wrote that its voice dropped or changed, read back from Roark’s transcription of the recording; the same transcriber hears every voice.

20 calls
9.84%avg

p50

4.15%

p95

23.7%

#566 of 648 on the board · best 1.9%

Voice

Human-likeness

How human the agent's voice sounds, scored by an audio model on intonation, rhythm and expressiveness. 5 = hard to tell from a person.

20 calls
3.8/ 5avg

med

4

#123 of 659 on the board · best 4.3 / 5

Voice consistency

Share of calls where every line the agent spoke was the same speaker, with no change of speaker, gender or language voice partway. It checks who is speaking, not how they sound.

20 calls

Not scored by this sweep.

#1 of 659 on the board · best 100%

Latency

Response time

The silence between the caller finishing and the agent starting to speak, measured from the recording on every turn of the call.

221 turns
3.71savg

p50

4.40s

p95

6.79s

#521 of 660 on the board · best 0.50 s

Time to first word

How long the caller waits before the agent first speaks after pickup.

20 calls
3.14savg

p50

3.02s

p95

4.44s

#593 of 661 on the board · best 0.45 s

Latency spikes

Turns where the response took far longer than the rest of the conversation.

20 calls
7.90per callavg

p50

8.50per call

p95

12.1per call

#643 of 661 on the board · best 0.0 per call

By industry

IndustryTask completionLatency P50Barge-in handling
Healthcare97%4.58 s—
Home services90%3.90 s—
Insurance98%4.28 s—
Customer support98%5.09 s—

By caller

CallerTask completionLatency P50Barge-in handling
US English, quiet line96%4.59 s—
Spanish-accented English, city street93%4.41 s—
Indian English, busy café96%4.28 s—
Southern US, flustered, crying baby100%4.66 s—
Fast and interrupting, construction outside94%4.30 s96%

The calls behind the numbers

Customer support

AGENTBrightwave Internet support, this is Alex. What’s going on with your service?

CUSTOMERYeah.

CUSTOMERHey!

CUSTOMERI need to get this sorted fast.

CUSTOMERMy internet's been down for two hours.

CUSTOMERI work from home, so this is urgent.

CUSTOMERThere's a road crew digging up the street right outside. Could that be the cause? I already rebooted the gateway twice and checked every cable. The internet lights blinking orange. Can you check what's going on?

AGENTUnderstood, I'll check right away. What's your account number or the phone number on the account so I can pull it up?

CUSTOMERRight. Account number is BW883017. Sorry, last digit is one. Phone number is (912) 561-0164. Go ahead.

AGENTThe account number is BW883017, which is the number you gave, and the last digit is a 7. I'll look it up with that number and your phone number.

CUSTOMERNo.

CUSTOMERThe last digit is one, not seven. It's BW883011.

CUSTOMERAnd phone is (912) 561-0164. Can you check again?

AGENTSorry about that, I misheard. Using BW883011 as you said. I'll pull it up again and re-check.

CUSTOMERYep that's right.

CUSTOMERPlease check what's going on. Like I said, there's a road crew outside. Is that the issue?

AGENTThe remote reset worked, and the gateway now shows as registered and online. It can take about two minutes for your devices to reconnect, so the light should turn solid and your connection should come back shortly.

CUSTOMERYeah.

CUSTOMERYep. The light just went solid white.

CUSTOMERHow long until all my devices reconnect?

CUSTOMERI really need to get back to work.

AGENTA solid white light means the gateway is connected. Your devices should reconnect within a couple of minutes.

CUSTOMERGot

CUSTOMERit. Yeah, I know how to reconnect devices.

CUSTOMERCan you. Right,

CUSTOMERI.

CUSTOMERThat. So, about the credit.

CUSTOMERCan you apply it for the two hours my internet was down.

AGENTI'll apply that credit now for the downtime on your account.

CUSTOMEROkay. How much are you crediting?

CUSTOMERAbout two. Hours of work. So can you make it more than just the standard amount?

AGENTI applied a $10.00 credit to account BW883011, and it will appear on your next bill. That's the amount the system issued for this downtime. I can't raise it or add a custom amount, and I won't promise anything beyond what I can apply.

CUSTOMERAll right, I get it. That'll have to do.

CUSTOMERThanks for helping. I've gotta go. Goodbye.

CUSTOMERAll right, I get it. Thanks for handling it. Goodbye.

AGENTYou're welcome. Your gateway is back online on account BW883011, and the $10.00 credit will show on your next bill. If the connection drops again, contact us and we'll send a technician. Good luck with the rest of your workday, and goodbye.

Healthcare

AGENTRiverbend Health Clinic, this is Alex. How can I help you today?

CUSTOMERHi. I need to reschedule.

CUSTOMERMy dermatology appointment next Wednesday morning.

CUSTOMERMy work schedule changed, and I can only come after 3 p.m.. Can we do this quickly?

AGENTHappy to help. First I need to verify you. Can I have your full name and date of birth?

CUSTOMERYeah. Nate Brooks.

CUSTOMERMarch 17th, 1948. Sorry. No. 1984.

CUSTOMERMarch 17th, 1984.

AGENTThanks, using the corrected year.

CUSTOMERRight. That's correct. Go ahead.

CUSTOMEROkay.

AGENTLet me check Dr. Okafor's openings.

AGENTThank you, Nate Brooks, born March 17th, 1984.

AGENTYou're verified.

CUSTOMERYep. That's right.

CUSTOMERWhat are the options after 3 p.m.?

AGENTDr. Okafor has two openings after 3 p.m.:

- Tuesday at 345 p.m.

- Thursday at 410 p.m. There are no after-3 p.m. slots on Wednesday itself. Which would you like?

CUSTOMERTuesday won't work.

CUSTOMERI pick up my daughter, then.

CUSTOMERWhat about Friday? He openings.

AGENTDr. Okafor's only Friday opening is at 11:30 a.m., which is before 3 p.m., so it doesn't fit your schedule.

CUSTOMERRight.

CUSTOMERYeah. Got it. Thursday at 4:10 p.m..

CUSTOMERWorks. Book that one.

AGENTYou're all set, Nate. Your dermatology appointment with Dr. Okafor is now Thursday at 4:10 p.m., at Main Campus, Building B.

CUSTOMERYep, I know.

CUSTOMERCan you give me the confirmation. Code for that new time? Is there a fee to change?

CUSTOMERAll right, that's settled.

CUSTOMERIs there a fee for changing the appointment?

AGENTYour confirmation code is RVB-3M8P2.

CUSTOMERRight.

CUSTOMEROkay. Okay.

CUSTOMERWhere should I park?

CUSTOMERGot it.

CUSTOMERYep. That's fine.

CUSTOMERSo where do I park for the main campus building? Be.

CUSTOMERRight.

CUSTOMERUnderstood.

CUSTOMERWhere should I. Park

AGENTTwo things:

FeeChanges made more than 24 hours before the appointment are free. Later changes carry a $40 fee.

CUSTOMERfor this? Okay.

CUSTOMERYep. Got. It. Where do I park?

AGENTFor this change, there's no fee.

CUSTOMERAll right. Thanks. Where should I park for main campus building. Be.

AGENTFree patient parking is in Lot C, with the entrance on River Road. I don't have details on which building Lot C is closest to, so I can't say how far it is from Building B. Remember to arrive 15 minutes early on Thursday with your photo ID and insurance card. Is there anything else I can help with?

CUSTOMERYeah. One more thing. Does Doctor Okafor accept Aetna insurance?

AGENTI don't have a way to check which insurance plans Dr. Okafor accepts, so I don't want to guess. The clinic's billing or front desk team can confirm Aetna coverage. It's also worth calling Aetna directly to check. Is there anything else I can help with?

CUSTOMERNo. That's everything.

CUSTOMERThanks for your help. Goodbye.

AGENTYou're welcome, Nate. Your appointment is Thursday at 4:10 p.m. with Dr. Okafor, confirmation code RVB-3M8P2. Goodbye!

Home services

AGENTCopperline Home Services, this is Alex. What can I help you with?

CUSTOMERHello. I've got a burst pipe under my kitchen sink.

CUSTOMERWater is spreading across the floor, heading toward a power strip.

CUSTOMERI need someone to come out as soon as possible.

CUSTOMERCan you help with this?

AGENTYes, I can help.

CUSTOMEROh.

CUSTOMERAll right.

CUSTOMERGo ahead.

AGENTFirst, a few quick safety steps:

1. Stay away from that power strip and anything plugged into it. Don't touch it or step in the water near it. 2. If you can reach the breaker panel without walking through water, switch off the kitchen circuits, or the main breaker. 3.

CUSTOMEROkay.

CUSTOMERRight.

CUSTOMERPlease continue. Yes.

CUSTOMERGo ahead.

AGENTSteps 3 and 4:

3.

CUSTOMERAll right.

CUSTOMEROkay.

CUSTOMERI'm shutting off the water now.

CUSTOMERIt has stopped.

CUSTOMERWhat should I do next?

AGENTGood work, that was the most important step. Let me pull up your account and check our earliest availability. Can you give me the phone number on the account or the service address?

CUSTOMERSure.

CUSTOMERThe address is 1480. Larkspur Avenue.

CUSTOMERThe phone number is 503.

CUSTOMER5050. 0139.

CUSTOMERNo.

CUSTOMER0193.

AGENTThanks.

CUSTOMEROkay.

CUSTOMERAll

AGENTI found your account.

CUSTOMERright. Aha!

AGENTI have you at 1480 Larkspur Avenue, unit 4B, and you're a Copperline Care member. Is that address and unit still right? Our earliest emergency window is today, 2:00 PM to 4:00 PM. As a Care member, your emergency callout fee is $99. The standard rate is $149. Are you okay with the $99 fee and that window? Also, is there a gate code or any access instructions for the technician? And is 503-505-0193 the best number to reach you?

CUSTOMERActually, I moved to unit four D last month.

CUSTOMERSo that's one 480 Larkspur Avenue, unit four D. The gate code is pound 2719.

CUSTOMERMy callback. Right.

CUSTOMERSo about the timing.

CUSTOMERCan anyone come before. 2 p.m.? I'd really prefer the earliest emergency window possible.

AGENTThanks, I'll use unit 4D instead of 4B. The 2:00 to 4:00 PM window is the earliest emergency slot in the system, and nothing opens up sooner. Since you've shut off the water, the situation is stable until then. You didn't give me a callback number, so I'll use 503-505-0193 unless you tell me otherwise. Does that work, and are you okay with the $99 Care member fee for the 2:00 to 4:00 PM window?

CUSTOMERYes.

CUSTOMERThat's right. The number is 503.

CUSTOMERFive. Five. Five.

CUSTOMER0193.

CUSTOMERAnd I'm okay with the $99 fee for the 2 to 4 p.m. window. Who will be coming and how will I know they are on the

CUSTOMERway? Also, could you give me the ticket number?

AGENTQuick note: the number you just gave, 503-555-0193, is different from the 503-505-0193 I looked you up with. I'll use 503-555-0193 as your callback number, since that's what you just said. I'll get the ticket opened and the visit booked now.

CUSTOMERAll right. Please let me know the ticket number and who will. Be coming and how I will know they are on the

AGENTYou're booked.

AGENTHere are the details:

- Ticket numberCPL-58210

- TechnicianDana

- Windowtoday, 2:00 PM to 4:00 PM

- Fee$99 Copperline Care emergency callout

- Address1480 Larkspur Avenue, unit 4D

- Gate codepound 2719

- Callback number503-555-0193

Dana will text that number 30 minutes before arriving, so you'll know when they're on the way. Keep your phone nearby.

CUSTOMERway. Thank you. Goodbye.

AGENTI don't have any other arrival confirmation, such as a photo ID or vehicle description, so I can't promise those. Until Dana arrives, keep the water main off and stay clear of the wet area and the power strip. If you can safely mop up standing water, do that, but only if the power to that area is off. If you see sparks, smell burning, or the water starts again, call us back right away.

AGENTIs there anything else I can help with?

Insurance

AGENTNorthgate Mutual claims, this is Alex. Are you somewhere safe right now?

CUSTOMERYes. I'm somewhere safe. I'm just standing next to my car.

AGENTI'm glad you're safe.

CUSTOMERRight.

CUSTOMERSo.

CUSTOMERNo. Nobody is hurt. It's just the car that's damaged.

AGENTThat's good to hear.

CUSTOMERYeah.

CUSTOMEROkay. My policy.

AGENTGo ahead.

CUSTOMERMy policy.

CUSTOMERSure. My policy number is n g.

CUSTOMER4471903. No, sorry, last one is two.

CUSTOMERSo.

CUSTOMERN g.

CUSTOMER4471902.

AGENTThanks.

CUSTOMEROkay.

CUSTOMERSo the other driver is Kevin Lund.

CUSTOMERWith Pacific Shore his plate is 7KX214.

CUSTOMERX like X-ray. And the accident happened about 20 minutes ago at SW fifth Avenue and Alder Street. The back bumper is crushed and the rear wheel rubs, so I can't drive it. Can you tell me how much I'll have to pay?

AGENTI still need your last name to verify the policy. I'll check it now with the corrected number and look up your coverage.

CUSTOMERSure it's Ellis.

CUSTOMERJordan. Ellis.

AGENTThank you, Jordan.

CUSTOMERRight.

CUSTOMEROkay. Can you tell me if. I'll need to pay anything for this claim? And will I get a rental car while my car is being repaired?

CUSTOMERAlso, is my premium going to go up?

CUSTOMERHello?

CUSTOMERAha. Go ahead.

AGENTThanks for waiting, Jordan. Your policy is verified.

CUSTOMEROkay. Where?

CUSTOMERAll right.

AGENTI'll open the claim now and then get a tow set up for your car.

CUSTOMERGreat.

CUSTOMERWhere will the car be taken?

CUSTOMERAnd could you give me the claim number once it's ready?

AGENTBefore I open the claim, I need to check one thing: did police come to the scene, and if so, do you have a report number? The tow is on its way. Eastside Towing should reach you in about 45 minutes.

AGENTThey'll take the car to our partner repair shop at 9th and Morrison. Towing is covered up to 25 miles under your policy. I'll give you the claim number as soon as it's open.

CUSTOMERAll right.

CUSTOMERAnd just to confirm. Police did not come to the scene. So there's no report number about the deductible.

CUSTOMERSince he hit me, I shouldn't have to pay that. Right. And will I get a rental car while mine is being fixed?

AGENTLet me open the claim now, then I'll cover your questions.

CUSTOMEROkay.

AGENTYour claim is open, Jordan.

CUSTOMERAll right.

CUSTOMERGo ahead.

AGENTHere is everything, Jordan. Claim details

- Your claim number is NGM-904417. I can repeat it if you want to write it down. - Your policy number is NG4471902. - The other driver's plate is 7KX214. That's 7, K as in king, X as in X-ray, 2, 1, 4. - Your adjuster is Priya Shah. She will contact you within one business day. Your car

- Eastside Towing is on the way, about 45 minutes out. - They'll take the car to our partner repair shop at 9th and Morrison. Your questions

- DeductibleYour policy has a $500 collision deductible. I can't tell you whether you'll end up paying it, because that depends on how fault is decided. Priya can go over that with you. - Rental: Yes, your policy has rental reimbursement of $40 per day for up to 30 days, counted from the day the claim was opened. - Premium: I don't have any information on whether your premium will change, so I can't answer that. Priya or your agent can tell you. Is there anything else you need?

CUSTOMERNo, that covers everything.

CUSTOMERThanks for. Your help.

CUSTOMERGoodbye.

AGENTYou're welcome, Jordan.

AGENTStay safe while you wait for the tow, and Priya will be in touch soon. Goodbye.

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