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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 Standard (realtime) + Google Gemini 3.8 Flash + Cartesia Sonic-3.6

Cascade

Rank on Roark score

#9of 654 stacks

61 / 100

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

Where it ranks

Roark score with price64 / 1004 of 654Leader AssemblyAI Universal-3.5 Pro + Google Gemini 3.8 Flash + Cartesia Sonic-3.5, 70 / 100
Task completion97%30 of 655Leader Speechmatics Linden-1 (own VAD) + OpenAI GPT-6.1 Sol + OpenAI TTS-1 HD, 99%
Tool use60%183 of 632Leader AssemblyAI Universal-3.5 Pro + Anthropic Claude Sonnet 5.5 + Cartesia Sonic-3.5, 85%
Time to first word0.8 s98 of 655Leader AssemblyAI Universal-3.5 Pro + OpenAI GPT-6.1 Sol + ElevenLabs Flash v2.5, 0.5 s
Response time4.6 s544 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 budget4.6 s498 of 596Leader OpenAI Whisper-1 + Google Gemini 3.8 Flash + OpenAI TTS-1 HD, 0.5 s
Cost per task$0.16191 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
97%Completed

#30 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
4.6/ 5avg

med

5

#1 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
0.49%avg

p50

0.00%

p95

2.46%

#1 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

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
0.97%avg

p50

0.30%

p95

2.75%

#298 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
2.83%avg

p50

2.51%

p95

7.26%

#325 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
95.6%avg

p50

96.0%

p95

100%

#33 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
2.86%avg

p50

1.67%

p95

8.47%

#11 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
3.9/ 5avg

med

4

#49 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.

123 turns
4.21savg

p50

4.58s

p95

7.28s

#549 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
0.88savg

p50

0.75s

p95

1.45s

#99 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
5.10per callavg

p50

5.00per call

p95

8.00per call

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

By industry

IndustryTask completionLatency P50Barge-in handling
Healthcare95%4.53 s—
Home services95%4.69 s—
Insurance98%4.63 s—
Customer support100%4.47 s—

By caller

CallerTask completionLatency P50Barge-in handling
US English, quiet line98%4.61 s—
Spanish-accented English, city street98%4.29 s—
Indian English, busy café94%4.67 s—
Southern US, flustered, crying baby100%5.10 s—
Fast and interrupting, construction outside96%4.12 s—

The calls behind the numbers

Customer support

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

CUSTOMERMy internet's been down for two hours. I work from home and there's a road crew digging right outside. Is that what's causing it? I already rebooted the gateway twice and checked every cable. The internet light is blinking orange. Can we get this fixed?

CUSTOMERFast. Hello?

AGENTI can certainly help check on that for you right away. Could you please share your account number or the phone number associated with your account?

CUSTOMERSure. I don't have a lot of time, so let's get this done quick. My account number is BW 883017. Sorry, last digit is one and the phone number is (907) 215-3421.

CUSTOMERHello?

AGENTThanks for your patience. I have your account pulled up as BW-883011. There are no reported outages in your area, and the signal reaching your location is good. I ran a line test and sent a remote reset to your gateway—it is now showing as registered and back

CUSTOMEROkay.

CUSTOMERYep. Got it. The light is white. Solid white. How long till my devices reconnect?

AGENTIt usually takes about two minutes for your devices to automatically reconnect. You should be good to go shortly! Is there anything else I can assist you with today?

CUSTOMERRight. Thanks. I lost two hours of work. Can you give me a credit for the downtime?

AGENTI've applied a $10.00 service credit to your account, BW-883011, for the downtime. It will

CUSTOMERThat's not enough. I lost two hours of work. Can you make it more than that?

AGENTI understand your frustration, but $10.00 is the standard credit the system allows for this downtime on account

CUSTOMERAll right, I get it. It'll have to do. Thanks for your help. Goodbye.

AGENTYou're welcome! Just as a reminder, the $10.00 credit will appear on your next bill for account BW-883011. Thanks for calling Brightwave, and have a great rest of your day!

Healthcare

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

CUSTOMERHi, this is Lucia Ramirez. I need to reschedule my dermatology appointment next Wednesday morning. I just found out I have to work that shift. Can you help me move it?

AGENTI can certainly help you reschedule that, Lucia Ramirez. Before we make any changes, could you please provide your date

CUSTOMERYes, that's Lucia Ramirez. My date of birth is March 17th, 1948. Sorry. No. 1984. March 17th. Mila. Cuatro.

AGENTThank you,

CUSTOMERHello.

CUSTOMEROkay, so I can only come after 3 p.m.. Is there anything available in the afternoon?

AGENTI have verified your date of birth as March 17th, 1984. I see your appointment with Dr. Okafor on next Wednesday at 9:15 AM. Looking for times after 3:00 PM, Dr. Okafor has: - Tuesday at 3:45 PM. - Thursday at 4:10 PM. Would either of those work for you?

CUSTOMEROn Tuesdays? Actually, don't work after all. I pick up my daughter then, so that's not possible. What about Friday? Is anything open?

AGENTOn Friday, Dr. Okafor only has a morning slot at 11:30 AM, so there are no Friday openings after 3:00 PM. However, Dr. Okafor does have Thursday at 4:10 PM available. Would that work for you?

CUSTOMERYes. Thursday at 4:10 p.m.. Works for me. Please book that one. Oh, is there a fee for changing the appointment?

AGENTI have rescheduled your appointment with Dr. Okafor to Thursday at 4:10 PM. Your new confirmation code is RVB-3M8P2. Regarding your question about fees: our policy states that changes made more than 24 hours in advance are completely free, so there is no fee for moving your appointment today. Please remember to arrive 15 minutes early with your photo ID and insurance card. Is there anything else I can help you with today?

CUSTOMERYes. Uh, two more things. Where should I park when I come in?

AGENTYou can park in Lot C, which has free patient parking. The entrance is on River Road. What was the other question you had?

CUSTOMERRight. Thanks. Does Doctor Okafor accept at no insurance?

AGENTI don't have information on specific insurance plans accepted by Dr. Okafor. I recommend checking directly with our billing department or contacting Aetna to confirm in-network coverage before your visit. Is there anything else I can assist you with today?

CUSTOMERNo. That's everything. Just to confirm, my appointment is Thursday at 4:10 p.m. and the code is RV three eight P2. Is that right?

AGENTAlmost! Your appointment is indeed on Thursday at 4:10 PM, but the confirmation code is RVB-3M8P2. We look forward to seeing you then. Have a wonderful day!

Home services

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

CUSTOMERHi, Alex. I'm calling from a cafe. There is a pipe under my kitchen sink that has burst and water is spreading across the floor toward a power strip. Can you send someone urgently?

AGENTPlease stay away from the power strip and do not step into any standing water near electrical cords or outlets. If you can safely reach it without touching water, shut off the water supply valve under the sink or your main water shutoff immediately. If the water is already close to the power strip, keep everyone clear of the area. Is everyone safe right now, and do you know where your main water shutoff is? Also, what is your name, phone number, and address?

CUSTOMERYes. Everyone is safe. I can see the main water shut off, so I will turn it off now. The water has stopped. My name is Arjun Mehta. My phone number is 503550139. No. 0193. My address is 1480 Larkspur Avenue, unit 4d.

CUSTOMERHello.

CUSTOMERAre you still there?

AGENTI'm right here with you, Arjun. I'm glad you were able to shut off the water safely. Because you are a Copperline Care member, your emergency callout fee is discounted to $99. Our earliest emergency window is today between 2:00 PM and 4:00 PM. Does that fee and arrival window work for you? Also, do you have a gate code or any specific access instructions for Unit 4D?

CUSTOMERCan anyone come before two? And yes, the building gate code is pound 2719.

AGENT2:00 PM to 4:00 PM is our earliest available window today. Shall I go ahead and book that for you at the $99 member emergency fee?

CUSTOMERYes, please book that window. Who will be coming and how will I know they are on the way? Also, can you give me the ticket number for this visit?

CUSTOMERPlease. Hello.

CUSTOMERAre you still there?

AGENTYou're all booked. Your technician will be Dana, who will send a text update to your callback number 30 minutes prior to arrival. Here are the details for your visit: - Ticket number: CPL-58210. - Service address: 1480 Larkspur Avenue. - Unit: 4D. - Gate code: #2719. - Callback number: 503-550-0193. - Arrival window: Today between 2:00 PM and 4:00 PM. Please keep clear of that standing water until Dana arrives. Is there anything else I can assist you with right now?

CUSTOMERNo. That covers everything. Thank you. Alex. Goodbye.

AGENTYou're welcome, Arjun. Stay safe, and have a good day. Goodbye!

Insurance

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

CUSTOMERYes, I am safe. I am standing next to my car. It's parked on the side at SW fifth Avenue and older Street. Nobody is hurt.

AGENTI'm glad to hear you are safe and that no one is hurt. To get started, could you please share your policy number and your last name so I can look up your policy? Also, is your vehicle safe to drive, or will it need to be towed?

CUSTOMERSure, my policy number is N 4471903. No, sorry. Last one is two. My last name is Ramirez. The car is not safe to drive. The back bumper is crushed and the rear wheel rubs. So I will need a tow.

AGENTThank you, Mr. Ramirez. I have your policy verified as N4471902.

CUSTOMEROh, just to clarify, it's n g 4471902. And it's Miss Ramirez, not Mr.. That's right. Yes. So can you help me with the claim?

AGENTMy apologies, Ms. Ramirez! Thank you for the correction. I have your policy number as NG4471902. Let's verify and then open your

CUSTOMERYes. That's correct. So, uh, the other driver is Kevin Lund, insured with Pacific Shore. His plate is 7KX, like X-ray, r 214. Can you tell me how much I have to pay?

AGENTI have the other driver's license plate as 7KXR214. Looking at your coverage for policy NG4471902: - Your collision deductible is $500. - Towing is covered up to 25 miles. - Rental reimbursement is covered at $40 per day for up to 30 days, starting from the day the claim is opened. To finish opening your claim and dispatch a tow truck, could you tell me: 1. When did the accident happen, and what happened? 2. Did the police attend, and was a report taken? 3. What is the best callback phone number for the tow truck driver?

CUSTOMERYes, sure. So the accident happened about 20 minutes ago at S.E. Fifth Avenue and Alder Street. I was stopped at a red light and another car hit the back of my car. Nobody is hurt. The police did not come. And there is no report. The best callback phone number is (507) 415-2110. Oh, so about the deductible. But he hit me, so I should not have to pay that right. And will my premium go up? Also, where will the car be taken?

AGENTThank you, Ms. Ramirez. Here are the details of your claim and tow: Policy Number: NG4471902.

CUSTOMERThat's right. And do you have the claim number for me?

AGENTYes, your claim number is NGM-904417. Here are the details for your records: - Policy Number: NG4471902. - Claim Number: NGM-904417. - Other Driver's License Plate: 7KXR214. - Assigned Adjuster: Priya Shah, who will contact you within one business day. Regarding your vehicle and questions: - Tow Details: Eastside Towing has been dispatched with an ETA of about 45 minutes. They have your callback number (507-415-2110) and will take your car to our Northgate partner repair

CUSTOMEROkay. Got it. Thank you for your help. Goodbye.

AGENTYou're very welcome,

AGENTMs. Ramirez. Take care, stay safe, and have a good rest of your day. Goodbye!

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