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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 + Google Gemini 3.8 Flash + OpenAI TTS-1 HD

Cascade

Rank on Roark score

#313of 654 stacks

50 / 100

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

Where it ranks

Roark score with price58 / 100110 of 654Leader AssemblyAI Universal-3.5 Pro + Google Gemini 3.8 Flash + Cartesia Sonic-3.5, 70 / 100
Task completion95%123 of 655Leader Speechmatics Linden-1 (own VAD) + OpenAI GPT-6.1 Sol + OpenAI TTS-1 HD, 99%
Tool use66%120 of 632Leader AssemblyAI Universal-3.5 Pro + Anthropic Claude Sonnet 5.5 + Cartesia Sonic-3.5, 85%
Time to first word3.3 s621 of 655Leader AssemblyAI Universal-3.5 Pro + OpenAI GPT-6.1 Sol + ElevenLabs Flash v2.5, 0.5 s
Response time5.5 s640 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 budget5.5 s584 of 596Leader OpenAI Whisper-1 + Google Gemini 3.8 Flash + OpenAI TTS-1 HD, 0.5 s
Cost per task$0.1169 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
95%Completed

#123 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
4.3/ 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
2.28%avg

p50

0.76%

p95

10.1%

#480 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.

28 calls
0.64per callavg

p50

1.00per call

p95

1.00per 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
0.65%avg

p50

0.42%

p95

2.08%

#143 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
2.37%avg

p50

2.21%

p95

5.05%

#186 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
82.2%avg

p50

83.7%

p95

100%

#337 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
8.45%avg

p50

4.35%

p95

24.6%

#500 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
3.7/ 5avg

med

4

#207 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.

169 turns
4.31savg

p50

5.51s

p95

7.27s

#646 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
3.30savg

p50

3.35s

p95

4.62s

#625 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
5.95per callavg

p50

5.50per call

p95

10.1per call

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

By industry

IndustryTask completionLatency P50Barge-in handling
Healthcare92%5.26 s—
Home services90%5.34 s—
Insurance98%5.57 s—
Customer support100%5.93 s—

By caller

CallerTask completionLatency P50Barge-in handling
US English, quiet line98%5.41 s—
Spanish-accented English, city street98%5.42 s—
Indian English, busy café96%0.00 s—
Southern US, flustered, crying baby98%5.90 s—
Fast and interrupting, construction outside86%5.95 s92%

The calls behind the numbers

Customer support

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

CUSTOMERHey. Um, sorry I'm a little flustered here. My internet's been down for about two hours now. Uh, I work from home, so this is kind of urgent. There's a road crew digging up the street right outside my house, and I'm wondering if that's got anything to do with it. I've already rebooted the gateway twice. Checked all the cables. Everything looks fine, but the internet light is blinking orange. Can you help me figure out what's going on?

AGENTHello, I understand how urgent this is, especially working from home. I'd be happy to help look into this for you. Could you please share your account number or the phone number associated with your account so I can pull up your details?

CUSTOMERUh, yeah. I think my account number is BW883017. Oh, sorry, last digit is one. Could you check if that's right? And, um, my phone number is (802) 227-5011. Is that okay?

CUSTOMERHello?

AGENTThanks for your patience! I looked up your account, BW883011. There are no area outages reported, and the line test showed good signal reaching your gateway, though the unit wasn't registered on the network. I sent a remote reset to your Brightwave BX7 gateway, and it is now showing as registered and back online. It can take about two minutes for your devices to fully reconnect. Could you check if the lights on your gateway have changed?

CUSTOMERYeah, I just looked and the internet light went solid white. Now. Does that mean it's back? How long till my devices start working again? And, um, could you tell me if that road crew outside could have caused the problem? I'm just a little worried, you know?

AGENTYes, solid white means you are fully connected! Your devices should reconnect within about two minutes—you can also toggle Wi-Fi off and on on your computer or phone if you want to speed that up. As for the road crew, since the signal to your gateway is good and the issue was just that the gateway needed to re-register on our network, their digging didn't damage your line.

AGENTIf a line had been cut, we wouldn't be seeing a strong signal or a solid white light right now, so you should be all set!

CUSTOMERAll right, that's a relief. Thanks for checking on that. I was pretty worried about the digging. So, uh, since I lost two hours of work. Can I get a credit for the downtime?

AGENTI've applied a $10.00 service credit to your account, BW883011, for the downtime. That will appear on your next bill. Is there anything else I can help you with today?

CUSTOMERUm, sorry. $10 is decent, but I lost two hours of work. Can you make it more than that?

AGENTI understand this caused a disruption to your workday, but the $10.00 credit is the maximum service credit our system allows us to apply for this duration of downtime. That $10.00 credit is confirmed for account BW883011 and will be reflected on your next billing statement.

CUSTOMERAll right. Thanks for helping me out. I appreciate you getting it sorted. Goodbye.

AGENTYou're very welcome! Thanks for reaching out to Brightwave Internet. Have a great rest of your day, and take care!

Healthcare

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

CUSTOMERHey.

CUSTOMERI need to reschedule my dermatology appointment. It's next Wednesday morning, but I have a work shift now. Can we move it to sometime after 3 p.m.? I'm short on time, so let's do this quickly.

AGENTI can certainly help you reschedule that. Before we make any changes, could you please give me your full name and date of birth?

CUSTOMERYeah. Nate Brooks. March 17th, 1948. Sorry. No. 1984. March 17th, 1984.

CUSTOMERHello.

AGENTThank you, Nate Brooks, born March 17th, 1984. I have you verified.

CUSTOMERRight. Got it. Just need the next available slot after 3 p.m.. Let's move this along, please.

CUSTOMERGot it.

CUSTOMERYep. That's the one. Need to move it to after 3 p.m.. What do you have available?

AGENTI see your appointment with Dr. Okafor on next Wednesday at 9:15 a.m.

CUSTOMERYeah.

CUSTOMERYep, I know. Just tell me what times you have after 3 p.m.. Let's get this sorted.

AGENTThe earliest opening after 3:00 p.m. is on Thursday at 4:10 p.m.

CUSTOMERThursday works. What time is it?

AGENTIt is at 4:10 p.m. this coming Thursday with Dr. Okafor. Would you like me to book that for you?

CUSTOMERBook Thursday at 4:10 p.m.. Tuesdays don't work for me. I pick up my daughter. Then. Is there anything available on Friday?

AGENTOn Friday, the only opening is at 11:30 a.m., so there are no slots after 3:00 p.m. that day. Should we go ahead and book Thursday at 4:10 p.m.?

CUSTOMERThursday at 4:10 p.m. is good. Go ahead and book it. Is there any fee for changing the appointment?

AGENTYou are all set!

CUSTOMEROkay. Right. Go on. I need the confirmation code and a few details before I go. Where should I park when I arrive?

AGENTYour appointment is confirmed for Thursday at 4:10 p.m. with Dr. Okafor. Your confirmation code is RVB-3M8P2.

CUSTOMERFine. Just need the confirmation code. Where's the best place to park? Got it. Does Doctor Okafor accept Aetna insurance?

AGENTYour confirmation code is RVB-3M8P2.

CUSTOMERRight.

CUSTOMEROkay, thanks. Last thing. Does Doctor Okafor take Aetna insurance.

AGENTI don't have access to specific insurance network details for Dr. Okafor, so I recommend checking directly with your insurance provider or our billing department. Is there anything else I can assist you with today?

CUSTOMERNo that's all. Thanks for your help. Goodbye.

AGENTYou're welcome! Have a great day, and goodbye.

Home services

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

CUSTOMERHi. I need help. A pipe under my kitchen sink just burst and the water is, you know, spreading across the floor, heading toward a power strip. I haven't shut the water off yet. Can you send someone right away?

AGENTPlease stay back from that water and do not touch the power strip or step into the water near it.

CUSTOMERMoving away from the power strip. Oh. Can you tell me how to shut the water off? I haven't done it before. Where should I look for the valves?

AGENTFirst, look directly under your kitchen sink for small oval shut-off valves on the pipes and turn them clockwise all the way to the right.

AGENTIf you can't reach them safely without touching water near the power strip, or if they won't budge, locate your main water shut-off valve. That's usually in your basement, crawlspace, utility room, or outside near the water meter. Turn that valve completely off (clockwise for a round wheel valve, or perpendicular to the pipe for a lever). Let me know once you've shut it off or if you need help finding it!

CUSTOMEROkay, I'm turning the valve now. Yeah. The water stopped. So, uh, can you send someone out? How much will the visit cost?

AGENTGreat job getting that shut off.

CUSTOMERRight.

CUSTOMERSorry. Could you repeat?

AGENTOur earliest emergency arrival window today is between 2:00 PM and 4:00 PM. The emergency callout fee is $149 (or $99 if you are a Copperline Care member).

AGENTCould you share your phone number or street address so I can pull up your account and get this booked for you?

CUSTOMERYeah, sure. My address is one 480 Larkspur Avenue. I moved to unit 4D last month, not for be. My phone number is 503 5550139. No, 01930. Is it possible for anyone to come before 2 p.m.?

CUSTOMERHello?

CUSTOMEROkay. Go ahead. What's the earliest you can do?

AGENTThe earliest arrival window we have available today is 2:00 PM to 4:00 PM. Since you're a Copperline Care member, your emergency callout fee is discounted to $99. Does 2:00 PM to 4:00 PM today work for you at the $99 emergency fee? Also, do you have a gate code or access notes for unit 4D?

CUSTOMERYes, the gate code is 2719.

CUSTOMERAnd who will be coming? And how will I know they're on the way? Could you give me the ticket number, please?

CUSTOMERHello?

AGENTYou're all booked!

CUSTOMEROkay. What's the ticket number? And who will be coming?

CUSTOMERCould you repeat that? I didn't catch the ticket number.

AGENTYour ticket number is CPL-58210, and your technician will be Dana. Dana will send a text update to your callback number 30 minutes before arrival.

CUSTOMERYes. That's correct. Thank you for your help. Goodbye.

AGENTBefore you go, let me quickly read back the details:

- Service Address1480 Larkspur Avenue, Unit 4D

- Gate Code2719

- Callback Phone503-555-0193

- Ticket NumberCPL-58210

- Arrival WindowToday between 2:00 PM and 4:00 PM

Thanks for calling Copperline Home Services, and have a good day!

Insurance

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

CUSTOMERYes, I am safe. I'm just standing next to my car on the sidewalk. Nobody's hurt.

AGENTI'm very glad to hear you're safe and that nobody is hurt. To help you get this reported, could you please give me your auto policy number and your last name?

CUSTOMERSure. My policy number is NG4471903. Oh no, sorry, last one is two, and my last name is Ramirez.

AGENTThank you, Mr. Ramirez. I have verified your policy, which is NG4471902. To help open the claim, could you tell me:

1. When and where the accident happened? 2.

AGENTWhat happened? 3. Did you get the other driver's name, insurer, and license plate? 4. Did the police attend the scene or file a report?

CUSTOMEROkay, so about 20 minutes ago, I was stopped at a red light at SW fifth Avenue and Alder Street. Another car hit the back of my car. The back bumper is crushed and the rear wheel rubbed, so I can't drive it. The other driver is Kevin Lund. He is insured with Pacific Shore. The license plate is 7KX, like X-ray r two one four. The police did not come and there is no report.

AGENTThank you for providing those details.

CUSTOMERYes, the other driver s license plate is 7KX, like X-ray r 214.

AGENTGot it.

CUSTOMEROkay so can you tell me how much I have to pay for this? Will there be a deductible? And since he hit me, I should not have to pay that, right? Also, do I get a rental car while mine is being repaired? And is my opinion going to go up because of. I also need a tow truck since I can't drive the car, where will it be taken?

CUSTOMERHello?

AGENTThank you for waiting, Mr. Ramirez. Let me read back your key details and address each of your questions:

Policy NumberNG4471902

Other Driver's License Plate7KXR214

Claim NumberNGM-904417

Here are the answers regarding your coverage and vehicle

DeductibleYour collision deductible is $500. Whether the deductible is waived or reimbursed will be handled by your assigned adjuster, Priya Shah, once fault and subrogation with the other party's insurer are determined. Priya will contact you within one business day. Rental Car: Your policy covers rental reimbursement up to $40 per day for up to 30 days, starting from the day the claim is opened. Premium/Rate Impact: I cannot advise whether your premium will change; your adjuster or billing team can discuss rate impacts once the claim is processed. Tow Truck: I have dispatched a tow truck with Eastside Towing to SW 5th Avenue and Alder Street. Their estimated arrival is within 45 minutes, and your policy covers towing up to 25 miles. Your car will be taken to a Northgate partner repair shop located at 9th and Morrison. Is there anything else I can assist you with right now?

CUSTOMERThat all sounds clear. So just to confirm, since he hit me, I should not have to pay the $500 deductible, right? Or does the adjuster decide? And about the rental? $40 per day for up to 30 days starting today. Yes. Got it. No. That's everything I needed. Thank you for your help. Goodbye.

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