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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

Deepgram Nova-2 + Google Gemini 3.8 Flash + ElevenLabs v4 Turbo

Cascade

Rank on Roark score

#10of 654 stacks

60 / 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 / 10093 of 654Leader AssemblyAI Universal-3.5 Pro + Google Gemini 3.8 Flash + Cartesia Sonic-3.5, 70 / 100
Task completion95%109 of 655Leader Speechmatics Linden-1 (own VAD) + OpenAI GPT-6.1 Sol + OpenAI TTS-1 HD, 99%
Tool use64%131 of 632Leader AssemblyAI Universal-3.5 Pro + Anthropic Claude Sonnet 5.5 + Cartesia Sonic-3.5, 85%
Time to first word0.9 s180 of 655Leader AssemblyAI Universal-3.5 Pro + OpenAI GPT-6.1 Sol + ElevenLabs Flash v2.5, 0.5 s
Response time4.0 s405 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 budget4.0 s368 of 596Leader OpenAI Whisper-1 + Google Gemini 3.8 Flash + OpenAI TTS-1 HD, 0.5 s
Cost per task$0.43502 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

#109 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
4.5/ 5avg

med

4.5

#54 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
4.32%avg

p50

2.46%

p95

17.2%

#658 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.

32 calls
0.75per callavg

p50

1.00per call

p95

1.45per 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
1.45%avg

p50

0.62%

p95

4.61%

#460 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
2.99%avg

p50

2.16%

p95

6.25%

#365 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
93.0%avg

p50

97.5%

p95

100%

#80 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
3.78%avg

p50

1.90%

p95

9.97%

#71 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
3.5/ 5avg

med

4

#390 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.

#643 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.

134 turns
3.75savg

p50

4.01s

p95

7.01s

#408 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
0.81savg

p50

0.85s

p95

1.20s

#182 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
5.25per callavg

p50

4.50per call

p95

8.20per call

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

By industry

IndustryTask completionLatency P50Barge-in handling
Healthcare98%3.95 s—
Home services83%3.77 s—
Insurance100%4.24 s—
Customer support100%3.73 s—

By caller

CallerTask completionLatency P50Barge-in handling
US English, quiet line94%3.48 s—
Spanish-accented English, city street92%4.12 s—
Indian English, busy café98%3.63 s—
Southern US, flustered, crying baby96%4.50 s—
Fast and interrupting, construction outside98%4.13 s100%

The calls behind the numbers

Customer support

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

CUSTOMERHi, Alex. Oh, yeah. I'm calling from a pretty busy street right now. Sorry if it's noisy. My Internet has been down for about two hours. I work from home, and there's a road crew digging up the street outside. So I wonder if that might be the cause. I already rebooted the gateway twice and checked every cable. The Internet light is blinking orange. Can you help me get it back online?

CUSTOMERHello?

CUSTOMERAre you still there?

AGENTI'm here! I can definitely help with that. Since you've already rebooted the gateway and checked the cables, I won't make you repeat those steps. Could you give me your account number or the phone number associated with

CUSTOMERSure. My account number is BW883017. Sorry. Last digit is 1. And my phone number is (540) 888-8522.

CUSTOMERHello?

AGENTThanks for your patience! I have your account pulled up as BW883011.

CUSTOMERUh-huh. That's right. It's BW883011. The last digit is one. So, can you check if the road crew outside could be causing this outage?

AGENTI checked for outages in your area, and there are none reported—the signal to your home is actually looking good, so the road crew didn't cut the line. I ran a line test, and it recommended a remote reset, which I just completed. Your gateway is now registered and showing online! It can take about two minutes for your devices to reconnect. Could you check if the lights are stabilizing?

CUSTOMEROkay. One second. Yeah. The Internet light just went solid white. How long until my laptop and phone reconnect? And, since I lost two hours of work, can you give me a credit for the downtime?

AGENTYour devices should reconnect within about two minutes. To make up for the downtime on account BW883011, I've applied a $10.00 service credit, which will appear on your next bill. Is there anything else I can assist you with today?

CUSTOMERRight. So $10 I lost two hours of work. Can you make it more than that?

AGENTI completely understand your frustration, but $10.00 is the standard service credit the system allows me to apply for this downtime. Your devices should be coming back online right about now—are they connecting for you?

CUSTOMERYeah. All connecting now. Okay. Thanks for your help, Alex. Goodbye.

AGENTYou're very welcome! Glad everything

AGENTis back up and running. Have a great rest of your day, and goodbye!

Healthcare

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

CUSTOMERHi. I need to reschedule my dermatology appointment next Wednesday morning. Something's come up at work and I won't be able to make it. My name is Jordan Ellis. I'd like to move it to a time after 3PM if possible.

AGENTHi Jordan, I can certainly help you reschedule that. Before we do, could you please provide your date of birth so I can look up your chart?

CUSTOMER03/17/1948. Sorry. No. Nineteen eighty four, March seventeen nineteen eighty four.

AGENTThank

CUSTOMERHello?

AGENTThank you for confirming your date of birth as March 17, 1984, Jordan. I see your appointment with Dr. Okafor next Wednesday at 9:15 AM. Looking for slots after 3:00 PM, Dr. Okafor has an opening on Thursday at 4:10 PM. Would that Thursday at 4:10 PM work for you?

CUSTOMERYes. Thursday at 04:10PM works for me. Go ahead and move it to that slot. Yeah. Thursday at 04:10PM works for me. Please reschedule it to that time.

AGENTI've rescheduled your appointment with Dr. Okafor to Thursday at 4:10 PM. Your new confirmation code is RVB-3M8P2. Please arrive 15 minutes early with your photo ID and insurance card. Is there anything else I can help you with today?

CUSTOMERYes. A few quick questions. Is there a fee for changing the appointment? Also, where should I park when I arrive? And does doctor Okafur accept Aetna insurance?

AGENTTo answer your questions:

1. Change FeeChanges made more than 24 hours before your appointment are completely free. 2. Parking: There is free patient parking in Lot C, with the entrance located on River Road. 3. Insurance: I don't have direct access to Dr. Okafor's current insurance accepted list, so I recommend calling your insurer or speaking with our billing department directly to verify your Aetna coverage. Is there anything else I can assist you with today?

CUSTOMERNo. That covers everything. Thanks for your help, Alex. Goodbye.

AGENTYou're very welcome, Jordan! Have a wonderful day, and goodbye.

Home services

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

CUSTOMERSorry. I'm in a hurry. There's a pipe under my kitchen sink that just burst. Water's spreading all over the floor toward a power strip. I need someone out here as soon as possible.

AGENTPlease stay away from that water and the power strip immediately so you don't get shocked. If you can safely reach it without stepping in water, turn off the water main

CUSTOMERYep. I'm already moving. Need someone out here fast. What's the soonest you can get a plumber to 1480 Larkspur Avenue, Unit 4 D?

AGENTI can have an emergency technician out today between 2:00

CUSTOMERUh-huh.

CUSTOMERCan anyone get here before two? I really need the earliest window possible. The water's still spreading.

AGENT2:00 PM to 4:00 PM today is our earliest available emergency window. Because you're a Copperline Care member, the emergency dispatch fee is discounted to $99. Does that work for you so I can book this right away? Also, please let me know the best callback phone number and any gate or access codes for Unit 4D.

CUSTOMERFine.

CUSTOMERJust book it. My callback is (503) 555-0139... No. 0193. Date code is pound 2719. Who's coming, and how will I know they're on their way? Also, what's the ticket number for this visit?

AGENTYou're all booked. Your technician is Dana, and she will text your callback number 30 minutes before arrival. Let me confirm your details:

- Ticket numberCPL-58210

- Service address1480 Larkspur Avenue, Unit 4D

- Gate code#2719

- Callback number(503) 555-0193

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

Please continue to stay safe and steer clear of any outlets or standing water until Dana arrives.

CUSTOMERYep. All correct. Thanks for booking it. Goodbye.

AGENTYou're welcome.

AGENTStay safe, and Dana will see you soon. Goodbye!

Insurance

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

CUSTOMERYes. I'm in a safe spot. I'm just standing next to my car out of the way.

AGENTI'm glad you're in a safe spot. Is anyone hurt or injured?

CUSTOMERNo. Nobody is hurt. We're both okay.

AGENTThat's a relief to hear. To get started, could you please give me your policy number and your last name?

CUSTOMERMy policy number is NG4471903. No. Sorry. Last one is two. My last name is Ellis.

AGENTThank you, Mr. Ellis. I have verified your policy, NG4471902. Could you tell me when and where the accident happened, and what took place?

CUSTOMERYeah. That's right on the policy number. The accident happened about twenty minutes ago at the intersection of Sessie 5th Avenue and Alder Street. I was stopped at a red light and another car hit the back of my car. The back bumper is crushed, and the rear wheel rubs, so I can't drive it. The police did not come.

AGENTI'm sorry that happened, Mr. Ellis. Did you happen to get the other driver's name, their insurance company, and their license plate number?

CUSTOMERYes. I did. The other driver is Kevin Lund. He's insured with Pacific Shore. The license plate is 7KXR214. X like X-ray,

AGENTThank you. I have opened your claim. To confirm the details:

- Your policy number is NG4471902. - The other driver's license plate is 7KXR214. - Your claim number is NGM-904417, and your assigned adjuster is Priya Shah, who will be in touch within one business day. Since your Honda CR-V cannot be driven safely, your policy covers towing up to 25 miles. I can dispatch a tow truck to the intersection of Sessie 5th Avenue and Alder Street right now. What is the best phone number for the tow driver to reach

AGENTyou?

CUSTOMERThe best number is (618) 431-9190. That's the one I'm calling from.

AGENTI have arranged the tow for you. Eastside Towing has been dispatched, and their estimated arrival time is about 45 minutes. They will tow your vehicle to the Northgate partner repair shop at 9th and Morrison, and the driver will contact you at (618) 431-9190 if needed. Do you have any questions about your coverage or next steps?

CUSTOMERYes. A couple. How much do I have to pay for this? Is there a deductible? But he hit me, so I should not have to pay that. Right? Also, will I get a rental car? And is my premium going to go up because of this?

AGENTRegarding your deductible: Your policy has a $500 collision deductible. Your adjuster, Priya Shah, will handle the liability investigation with Pacific Shore and explain how the deductible applies or if it can be recovered. Regarding a rental car: Your policy covers rental reimbursement of $40 per day for up to 30 days, starting from the day the claim is opened. Regarding your premium: I don't have information on how your premium might be affected; that will depend on the final outcome of the claim and your adjuster can provide more details. Is there anything else I can help you with while you wait for the tow truck?

CUSTOMERNo. That's everything I needed. Thanks for your help. Goodbye.

AGENTYou're very welcome, Mr. Ellis. Please stay safe, and have a good day. Goodbye.

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