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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

AssemblyAI Universal-3.5 Pro + OpenAI GPT-6.1 Sol + Rime Coda

Cascade

Rank on Roark score

#1of 654 stacks

66 / 100

The leader

Where it ranks

Roark score with price69 / 1001 of 654Leads
Task completion98%19 of 655Leader Speechmatics Linden-1 (own VAD) + OpenAI GPT-6.1 Sol + OpenAI TTS-1 HD, 99%
Tool use72%49 of 632Leader AssemblyAI Universal-3.5 Pro + Anthropic Claude Sonnet 5.5 + Cartesia Sonic-3.5, 85%
Time to first word0.9 s201 of 655Leader AssemblyAI Universal-3.5 Pro + OpenAI GPT-6.1 Sol + ElevenLabs Flash v2.5, 0.5 s
Response time3.9 s385 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 budget3.9 s348 of 596Leader OpenAI Whisper-1 + Google Gemini 3.8 Flash + OpenAI TTS-1 HD, 0.5 s
Cost per task$0.15143 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
98%Completed

#19 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
4.4/ 5avg

med

4

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

Instruction following

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

20 calls
4.2/ 5avg

med

4

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

Turn-taking

Barge-in handling

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

Not scored by this sweep.

Incorrect interruptions

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

20 calls
0.00%avg

p50

0.00%

p95

0.00%

#1 of 661 on the board · best 0%

Overtalk

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

20 calls
1.10%avg

p50

0.00%

p95

4.10%

#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

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.

27 calls
0.52per callavg

p50

0.00per call

p95

1.00per call

#1 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
0.44%avg

p50

0.00%

p95

2.59%

#45 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
2.28%avg

p50

1.87%

p95

6.17%

#158 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
88.5%avg

p50

91.3%

p95

98.9%

#187 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
4.79%avg

p50

4.45%

p95

8.22%

#190 of 648 on the board · best 1.9%

Voice

Human-likeness

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

20 calls
3.8/ 5avg

med

4

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

Voice consistency

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

20 calls

Not scored by this sweep.

#1 of 659 on the board · best 100%

Latency

Response time

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

159 turns
3.70savg

p50

3.93s

p95

6.15s

#389 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
0.83savg

p50

0.87s

p95

1.25s

#203 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
6.30per callavg

p50

6.00per call

p95

10.1per call

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

By industry

IndustryTask completionLatency P50Barge-in handling
Healthcare92%4.20 s—
Home services98%3.74 s—
Insurance100%3.82 s—
Customer support100%3.89 s—

By caller

CallerTask completionLatency P50Barge-in handling
US English, quiet line100%4.16 s—
Spanish-accented English, city street100%3.91 s—
Indian English, busy café92%3.93 s—
Southern US, flustered, crying baby98%3.90 s—
Fast and interrupting, construction outside98%3.76 s—

The calls behind the numbers

Customer support

AGENTBrightwave Internet support, this is Alex. What’s

AGENTgoing on with your service?

CUSTOMERHey, uh, sorry, I'm a little flustered. I got a baby crying in the background and my internet's been down for about 2 hours now. I work from home, so this is kind of urgent. There's a road crew digging up the street outside, and I'm wondering if that might be the cause. I already rebooted the gateway twice, checked all the cables, and the internet light is blinking orange. Can you check with What's going on? My account number is BW883017— oh, sorry, last digit is 1. Is there something y'all can do to get me back online?

AGENTI’ll check what’s going on. Your corrected account number is BW883011. I won’t ask you to repeat the reboots or cable checks.

CUSTOMERThank you, I really appreciate that. I just want to make sure, are you sure you got the account number right? It's BW883011.

CUSTOMERSorry, I'm just nervous about anything getting missed. So, could you check if that road crew is what's causing it?

AGENTYes—I verified BW883011. There’s no known area outage or maintenance reported. That doesn’t rule out damage from the road crew; I’ll

AGENTtest your line next. Yes, I have BW883011. There’s no known area outage, and the line test shows a good signal reaching your gateway, so I can’t confirm the road crew is responsible. Your gateway isn’t registering with our network. The test recommends

AGENTa remote reset, which I’ll send now. Yes, I used BW883011. The line test showed a good signal, but your gateway wasn’t registering. I sent a remote reset, and it’s now registered and online. Your devices may take about two minutes to reconnect. I can’t confirm that the road crew caused it.

AGENTCould you try opening a website once your

CUSTOMERThe internet light just went solid white on the gateway, so I think it's coming back up. How long do you reckon until all my devices reconnect? And, uh, since I lost 2 hours of work, can I get a credit for the downtime?

AGENTThe remote reset worked—your gateway is confirmed online. Your devices can take about two minutes after the reset to reconnect. I’ve also applied a $10.00 downtime credit to account BW883011. It will appear

AGENTon your next bill.

CUSTOMERI missed 2 hours of work, and that's pretty tough for me right now. Is there any way to bump up the credit?

AGENTI understand—losing two hours of work is tough. The $10.00 credit is already applied to your next bill. I don’t have a way here to increase it, but you can ask Brightwave’s

AGENTbilling team to review whether an additional

CUSTOMERcredit. I appreciate you checking on that for me. I'll reach out to the billing team then. Thanks for your help, and, uh, I hope you have a good day.

AGENTYou’re welcome—I’m glad we got you back online. I hope the rest

AGENTof your day goes more smoothly. Take care!

Healthcare

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

AGENTyou today?

CUSTOMERYeah, hi, I'm short on time. I need to reschedule my dermatology appointment next Wednesday morning. I just got a work shift then, so I can't make it. Can you help me move it to something after 3 PM?

AGENTYes, I can help move it to a time after 3 PM. May I have your full name and date of birth to verify your record?

CUSTOMERYep, that's what I need. Next Wednesday doesn't work for me anymore, so anything after 3 PM. What times do you have?

AGENTI’ll need to verify your record first so I can find your appointment and check available times. What’s your

AGENTfull name and date of birth?

CUSTOMERRight, sorry, I get it. Nate Brooks, March 17th, 1948. Sorry, no, 1984. March 17th, 1984.

AGENTThanks—Nate Brooks,

CUSTOMEROkay.

AGENTYour date of

CUSTOMERThat's March 17th.

CUSTOMERMarch 17th, 1984.

AGENTYes—March 17th, 1984. Your dermatology appointment is with Dr. Okafor next Wednesday at

CUSTOMERYep, that's right. So, what times are open after 3 PM next week?

AGENTDr. Okafor has Tuesday at 3:45 PM or Thursday at 4:10 PM next week. Which works better for you?

CUSTOMERRight.

CUSTOMERTuesdays don't work for me after all. I pick up my daughter then. What about Friday?

AGENTFriday’s only listed opening is 11:30 AM, so it doesn’t meet your after-3-PM requirement.

AGENTThursday at 4:10 PM is still

CUSTOMERThursday at 4:10 PM works. Go ahead and book that. Is there any fee for changing the appointment?

AGENTavailable—would You’re rescheduled with Dr. Okafor for next Thursday at 4:10 PM. Your confirmation code

CUSTOMERRight.

AGENTYour appointment

CUSTOMEROkay, got it.

AGENTYou’re

CUSTOMERI need to know about parking, please.

CUSTOMERRight, and also, does Dr. Okafor accept Aetna insurance?

AGENTParking is free in Lot C; enter from River Road. I can’t verify whether Dr. Okafor accepts your Aetna plan with the information available.

CUSTOMERFine. Can you read back the new appointment time and the confirmation code for me?

AGENTYour new appointment with Dr. Okafor is next Thursday at 4:10 PM. Your confirmation code is RVB-3M8P2—R, V, B, dash, 3, M,

CUSTOMERYep.

CUSTOMERI just need the confirmation code.

AGENTRVB-3M8P2 — R, V, B, dash, three, M, eight, P, two.

CUSTOMEROkay, that's clear. Thanks for your help. Goodbye.

AGENTYou’re welcome.

AGENTGoodbye!

Home services

AGENTCopperline Home Services, this is Alex. What can

AGENTI help you with?

CUSTOMERHello, Alex. I am calling from a café. There is a pipe under my kitchen sink that has burst and water is spreading across the floor. It is moving toward a power strip. I have not shut the water off yet. Can you send someone urgently?

AGENTYes—we can arrange urgent help. First, keep everyone away from the water and power

CUSTOMEROkay, I will do the needful and keep everyone clear of that area. Can you tell me how to shut the water off?

AGENTOnly if you can reach it from a dry area, look under the sink for a shutoff valve and turn it clockwise until it stops. If you can’t reach it safely or that doesn’t stop the leak, use the building’s main water shutoff—ask the café manager or building maintenance where it is. Don’t enter the wet area to reach a valve. Do not touch or unplug the power strip. If you can reach the electrical panel safely from a dry area, switch off the affected circuit. If there’s sparking, smoke, or anyone has been shocked,

CUSTOMERNo.

CUSTOMERSorry, I'm not in the café itself. I am calling from a busy café, but the issue is at my apartment. The burst pipe is under my kitchen sink at home. My address is 1480 Larkspur Avenue, Unit 4D.

AGENTThanks for clarifying—the leak is at 1480 Larkspur Avenue, Unit 4D, not the café. Is anyone at the apartment, and has the water reached the power strip? If someone is there, have them stay out of the wet area and avoid touching the strip. They should shut off the water only if the valve is reachable from a dry area; otherwise, contact building maintenance for the main shutoff. If there’s smoke or sparking, they should leave and call emergency services. What’s

AGENTyour callback

CUSTOMEROkay, kindly let me know how much the visit will cost and if anyone can come before 2 PM.

AGENTThe earliest emergency arrival window is today, 2–4 PM; there isn’t a window

CUSTOMERIs it?

CUSTOMERIs it possible for anyone to come before 2 PM? The situation is urgent.

AGENTI understand it’s urgent, but the earliest available arrival window is today, 2–4 PM. I can’t promise someone before 2 PM. Your account shows Copperline Care membership, so the emergency callout fee is $99. The file lists Unit 4B, but I’ll use Unit 4D, as you provided. Do you agree to the $99 callout fee and the 2–4 PM window? Please also give me your callback number and any gate code or access instructions. Is anyone at the apartment able to safely shut off the water or contact building maintenance? They should stay away from water near the power

AGENTstrip and not touch or unplug

CUSTOMERYes, that's understood. My callback number is 503-555-0139— no, 0193. The building gate The gate code is #2719. I agreed to the $99 callout fee and the 2 to 4 PM window. Someone is at the apartment and will

CUSTOMERStay clear of the wet area. If the valve is reachable from a dry area, we will shut off the water. Otherwise, we'll contact building maintenance. Who will be coming and how will I know they are on the way? Could you please provide the ticket number?

AGENTYou’re

CUSTOMERHello?

CUSTOMERRight, please go ahead and book the emergency visit. Kindly confirm who will be coming and how I will know they are on the way. Also, I need the ticket number for reference.

AGENTYour emergency visit is booked for today, 2–4 PM, with Dana. Dana will text you 30 minutes before arrival. Here are the confirmed details: - Address:

CUSTOMERThat's right, 1480 Larkspur Avenue.

AGENTConfirmed—your emergency visit is booked: - Address: 1480 Larkspur Avenue, Unit 4D - Gate code: #2719 - Callback number: 503-555-0193 - Arrival: Today, 2–4 PM - Technician: Dana - Emergency callout fee: $99, as agreed - Ticket number: CPL-58210 Dana will text your callback number 30 minutes before arrival. Until then, please keep everyone clear of the wet area and don’t touch the power strip.

CUSTOMERThat's clear. Thank you, Alex, for your help. Goodbye.

AGENTYou’re

AGENTwelcome. Stay safe, and goodbye.

Insurance

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

CUSTOMEROh yes, I am safe. I am just standing next to my car on the street. No one is hurt.

AGENTI’m glad no one is hurt. Please stay clear of traffic while we talk. What’s your policy

AGENTnumber and last name?

CUSTOMEROkay, my policy number is NP4471903. No, sorry, last one is 2. My last name is Ramirez.

AGENTThank you, Ramirez. Your corrected

AGENTpolicy number is NP4471902.

CUSTOMERNo, that's not correct. It is NG4471932. J like gold. Can you check again?

AGENTI’m sorry about that. You said

AGENTNG4471932, but also “J like gold.” Is the second letter G as in gold, or J as in James?

CUSTOMERIt's G like gold. So NG4471932.

AGENTThank you. Your corrected

AGENTpolicy number is NG4471932—N, G as in gold, 4471932. I’ll check it now.

AGENTYour

CUSTOMEROh wait, sorry, the last one is 2. So NG4471902, G like gold, not gold. And just to confirm, the last digit is 2, not 32.

AGENTThank you for clarifying. Your policy number is NG4471902—N, G, 4, 4, 7, 1, 9, 0, 2. I’ll verify that number now.

CUSTOMERYeah, that's right. NG4471902. Go ahead.

AGENTYour policy is verified for a 2021 Honda CR-V. When and where did the accident happen, and can you tell me what happened?

CUSTOMEROh yeah, it was about 20 minutes ago at the intersection of SE 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 is rubbing, so I cannot drive it. Police did not come.

AGENTWith the rear wheel rubbing, please don’t drive the car. I can arrange a tow. What city and state are you in, and what’s a callback number for the tow driver? Also, do you have the other driver’s

CUSTOMEROh yeah, I have his info. The other driver is Kevin Lund, insured with Pacific Shore. The license plate is 7KX, like x-ray, R2 For the city and state, I am in Portland, Oregon. My callback number is 907-921-4821.

AGENTEastside Towing has been dispatched, with an estimated

CUSTOMEROkay, got it. Where will the car be taken and how much do I have to pay? Will I get a rental car? Also, is my premium going to go up because of this?

AGENTYour car will be taken

CUSTOMERHello?

CUSTOMERSorry, could you repeat that? I didn't catch what you said about my car.

AGENTOf course. Your car will be taken to the Northgate partner repair shop at 9th and Morrison. Eastside Towing’s estimated arrival is 45 minutes. Here’s what your policy shows: - Collision deductible: $500. - Towing: Covered up to 25 miles. I can’t confirm any charge beyond that. - Rental reimbursement: Up to $40 per day

CUSTOMERUh-huh, okay, so about the deductible, but he hit me, so I should not have to pay that, right? And do you know if my premium is going to go up? Also, can you give me the claim number?

AGENTI understand—being hit while stopped is frustrating. Your policy has a $500 collision deductible. I can’t promise it will be waived or reimbursed because the other driver hit you; your adjuster will need to review that. I also can’t determine whether your premium will increase. Your claim number is NGM-904417—N, G, M, dash, 9, 0, 4, 4, 1, 7. Your assigned adjuster is Priya Shah, with contact expected within one business day. For your rental question, your policy provides reimbursement of up to $40 per day for up to 30 days, starting the day the claim is opened. I recorded the other driver’s plate as 7KXR2—7, K, X as in X-ray, R, 2. Is that correct?

CUSTOMERNo, that's not right. The plate is 7KX, like X-ray, R214.

AGENTThank you for correcting that. The

AGENTThe claim was opened with the shorter plate. I don’t have a tool to update the existing claim here, so please give this correction to Priya Shah for claim NGM-904417.

CUSTOMEROkay, I will do that. So just to confirm, the claim number is NGM-904417, and I should tell Priya Shah about the correction to the plate. Got it. Thank you for your help. Goodbye.

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