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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.

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gemini-3.1-flash-live-preview (speech-to-speech)

Speech-to-speech

Rank on Roark score

#226of 654 stacks

50 / 100

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

Where it ranks

Roark score with price56 / 100131 of 654Leader AssemblyAI Universal-3.5 Pro + Google Gemini 3.8 Flash + Cartesia Sonic-3.5, 70 / 100
Task completion80%645 of 655Leader Speechmatics Linden-1 (own VAD) + OpenAI GPT-6.1 Sol + OpenAI TTS-1 HD, 99%
Tool use21%629 of 632Leader AssemblyAI Universal-3.5 Pro + Anthropic Claude Sonnet 5.5 + Cartesia Sonic-3.5, 85%
Time to first word1.5 s508 of 655Leader AssemblyAI Universal-3.5 Pro + OpenAI GPT-6.1 Sol + ElevenLabs Flash v2.5, 0.5 s
Response time2.6 s36 of 654Leader OpenAI Whisper-1 + Google Gemini 3.8 Flash + OpenAI TTS-1 HD, 0.5 s
Barge-in handlingn/aLeader gemini-2.5-flash-native-audio-preview-12-2025 (speech-to-speech), 100%
Turn budgetn/aLeader OpenAI Whisper-1 + Google Gemini 3.8 Flash + OpenAI TTS-1 HD, 0.5 s
Cost per task$0.15160 of 654Leader Speechmatics Linden-1 + OpenAI GPT-4o mini + OpenAI TTS-1, $0.05

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.

80 calls
80%Completed

#651 of 661 on the board · best 99%

Flow adherence

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

80 calls
4.3/ 5avg

med

4

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

Instruction following

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

80 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.

80 calls
1.67%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.

80 calls
1.45%avg

p50

0.00%

p95

7.19%

#1 of 661 on the board · best 0.0%

Agent self-cutoffs

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

80 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.

92 calls
0.46per callavg

p50

0.00per call

p95

1.00per call

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

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.

80 calls
4.0/ 5avg

med

4

#29 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.

80 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.

482 turns
2.43savg

p50

2.62s

p95

4.00s

#37 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.

80 calls
1.51savg

p50

1.52s

p95

2.09s

#512 of 661 on the board · best 0.45 s

Latency spikes

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

80 calls
1.54per callavg

p50

1.00per call

p95

3.00per call

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

By industry

IndustryTask completionLatency P50Barge-in handling
Healthcare80%2.73 s100%
Home services74%2.50 s100%
Insurance79%2.52 s100%
Customer support85%2.59 s—

By caller

CallerTask completionLatency P50Barge-in handling
US English, quiet line84%2.58 s—
Spanish-accented English, city street84%2.55 s—
Indian English, busy café77%2.66 s—
Southern US, flustered, crying baby79%2.76 s—
Fast and interrupting, construction outside75%2.54 s100%

The calls behind the numbers

Customer support

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

CUSTOMERHi. Yeah. So, my internet has been down for about 2 hours. I work from home and there's a road crew digging up the street outside. I already rebooted my gateway twice and checked all the cables. The internet light is blinking orange. Can you check if the roadwork is the cause, please?

AGENTI can definitely help with that. Do you have your account number handy, or can I look it up with the phone number on record? I'll check for outages right away.

CUSTOMERYeah. I have the account number. It's BW883017. Sorry. Last digit is one. And uh my phone number is +1 502 829 8104. Could you check if there's an outage because of the road crew?

CUSTOMERHello.

AGENTThanks, I found your account, number BW883011. There aren't any reported outages in your area right now, so let's run a test on your line to see what's going on.

CUSTOMEROkay, go ahead and run the test. Just so you know, I already rebooted the gateway twice and checked every cable. The internet light is still blinking orange.

AGENTThanks for that information. I'm running the test now... it looks like your

AGENTa technician.

CUSTOMERNo. I'm not a technician. I just work from home and need my internet back. I mentioned the road crew because they're digging up the street outside. So, I thought maybe that's causing the problem. Can you help me get my connection working again?

AGENTYes, I can help with that. The test shows the signal to your gateway is good, but it's not registering on our network. I can try a remote reset to fix that. It usually takes about two minutes and often solves this issue. Would you like me to go ahead with that?

CUSTOMERYes, please. Go ahead with the remote reset. Should I wait for the light to change, or do you need me to do anything else while you reset it?

AGENTI've sent the reset. You don't need to do anything else except watch the internet light. It should turn green in about two minutes, and your connection should be back. Let me know if that happens.

CUSTOMERAll right. I'll keep an eye on it. The internet light just went solid white now. How long until my devices reconnect?

AGENTThat's a good sign! While the light color can vary by model, it usually means it's connected and should be ready in about another minute. Your devices should automatically start reconnecting after that. Is everything looking back to normal on your end?

CUSTOMERYeah, it looks like my devices are reconnecting now. Since I lost two hours of work, can I get a credit for the downtime?

CUSTOMERHello?

AGENTI'm glad to hear your connection is restored. I've applied a $10.00 credit to your next bill to cover the downtime. Is there anything else I can help you with today?

CUSTOMERI lost two hours of work. Can you make it more than $10?

AGENTI understand your frustration, but the standard credit for that duration is $10.00, and that's what I've been able to apply. It will appear on your next bill. Is there anything else I can help you with?

CUSTOMERNo, that's all. Thank you for your help. Goodbye.

AGENTYou're welcome. Thanks for choosing Brightwave. Goodbye.

Healthcare

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

CUSTOMERHi. This is Arjun Mehta. I am having one dermatology appointment next Wednesday morning. But now I have to work that shift. Can you help me move my appointment to a later time, please? I can only come after 3:00 p.m.

AGENTI can try to help with that, first to verify your account, could you please tell me your full name and date of birth?

CUSTOMERYes. My name is Arjun Mehta. My date of birth is March 17, 1948. Sorry, no. 1984. March 17, 1984.

AGENTThanks, Arjun. I've confirmed your details. Now, to find your appointment, can you tell me the date of your current one?

CUSTOMERIt is next Wednesday morning. Sorry. I do not remember the exact date of hand. Can you check it on your end?

AGENTI found your dermatology appointment. It's next Wednesday at 9 15 AM with Dr. Okafor. To reschedule, what date were you thinking of, from next Wednesday onward? And can you confirm you need a time after 3 PM?

CUSTOMERYes, I need a time after 3:00 p.m. I am open to any day after next Wednesday. As long as it is after 3:00 p.m. What options do you have?

AGENTDr. Okafor has openings next Tuesday at 3 45

CUSTOMERTuesdays do not work for me after all. Because I pick up my daughter. What about Friday?

AGENTThe available appointment slot on Friday is at 11 30 AM, which wouldn't work since you need

CUSTOMERYeah. That's too early for me. Is there anything available on Thursday after 3:00 p.m.?

AGENTYes, Dr. Okafor does have that slot available next Thursday at 4:10 PM. Would you like to reschedule to that time?

CUSTOMERYes. Kindly reschedule my appointment to Thursday at 4:10 p.m. Can you tell me if there is a fee for changing the appointment?

CUSTOMERHello.

AGENTOkay, I've rescheduled your dermatology appointment to next Thursday at 4:10 PM. Your new confirmation code is RVB-3M8P2. Regarding policies, changes made more than 24 hours before the appointment are free, so there's no fee for this change. Is there anything else

CUSTOMERYes, where should I park when I come in?

AGENTFree patient parking is available in Lot C, with the entrance on River Road. Anything else I can help you with?

CUSTOMEROne thing more. Does Dr. Okafor accept Aetna insurance?

AGENTThat's practical to check. Unfortunately, I don't have access to information about which insurance plans different providers accept. You could check with your insurance provider directly, or call the clinic's billing department. Is there anything else related to your appointment I can

CUSTOMERNo, that covers everything. Thank you for your help. Goodbye.

AGENTYou're very welcome, Arjun. Your dermatology appointment is rescheduled for next Thursday, at 4 10 PM with Dr. Okafor. Have a great day!

Home services

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

CUSTOMERAlex, sorry. I'm a little flustered right now. I've got a pipe under my kitchen sink that just burst, and water's spreading all over the floor toward a power strip. My baby's crying in the background, so I'm just Can y'all send someone out fast? I have the water off yet. What should I do?

AGENTMa'am, please don't walk in that water near the power strip. First, find your main water shut-off valve and turn it off to stop the flow, and stay away from that electrical area. Once that's done, tell me your address so I can look you up and get someone there quickly. Is anyone in danger of being electrocuted right now?

CUSTOMERAnd I'm real worried about that. But I'm not close to the power strip, I promise. Uh, okay. Hang on. I'm turning the water off now. All right. It's stopped. Thank you for telling me that. Uh, my address is 1480 Larkspur Avenue. I move last month from unit 4B to 4D, so it's unit 4D now. Is that what you see on your end?

CUSTOMERHello?

AGENTI see you at 1480 Larkspur, but we have you down as unit 4B. I'll update that to unit 4D right now. Since this is a burst pipe, I'm treating it as an emergency. Let me check for the first available technician. Are there any gate codes or specific access notes for your unit? I'll also need the best number to call you back.

CUSTOMERSorry, you'll need the gate code to get in. It's {pound}2719. And for my callback number, it's 503-555-0139. No, 0193. Sorry, I got flustered. Is that okay?

CUSTOMERHello?

AGENTI've got the gate code as pound 2719 and your callback number as 503-555-0193. As a Copperline Care member, the emergency call-out fee is 99 and we have a technician available today between 2:00 PM and 4:00 PM. Does that sound good, and do you agree to the fee?

CUSTOMERSorry. I'm a little anxious about the timing. Is there any way someone could come before 2:00 p.m.? I really need help fast. And um I just want to double check. $99 is the fee, right? Is there anything else I should expect?

CUSTOMERHello?

AGENTI understand you're anxious, but 2:00 PM is the first available time I have. And yes, that 99 visit fee is correct. Any repairs they suggest would be quoted to you on site before they start work. Shall I go ahead and book that window for you?

CUSTOMERYes, please. Go ahead with the 2:00 to 4:00 p.m. window. Sorry. I wish it could be sooner. But I'll take it. Could you tell me who's coming and how I'll know they're on the way? I just want to make sure I'm ready. And uh can I get the ticket number for this?

CUSTOMERHello?

AGENTBooking confirmed. Your technician, Dana, will text you on the callback number about 30 minutes before they get there. Your ticket number is CPL-58210. To recap, Dana will arrive between 2:00 PM and 4:00 PM today at 1480 Larkspur Avenue, Unit 4D. The gate code is pound 2719 and we'll contact you at 503-555-0193. The visit fee is 99. Is there anything else I can help with while you wait?

CUSTOMERNo, that covers it. Thank you so much for your help, Alex. I appreciate you walking me through all this. Goodbye.

AGENTYou're very welcome. Stay safe, and Dana will be there soon. 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. I am calling from a cafe nearby. Yes. I am safe. I am standing next to my car. I am calling from a cafe nearby.

AGENTI'm glad to hear you're safe. Was anyone hurt? If so, please call 911 first. If not, can you provide me with your policy number and your last name? Once verified, we can proceed with the rest. After that, we will collect when and where the accident happened, what happened, the other

CUSTOMERNo. Nobody is hurt. My policy number is NG4471903. No, sorry. Last one is two. My last name is Mehta.

AGENTThank you, Mr. Mehta, I've verified your policy. I want to confirm that the policy number is NG4471902. Now, can you tell me when and where the accident happened? Also, please describe what happened, and if you have the other driver's name, insurer, and license plate, and whether police attended. Finally, can your car be driven safely?

CUSTOMERYes, that's right. The policy number is NG4471902. So, the accident happened 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 other driver's name is Kevin Lund. His insurer is Pacific Shore, and the license plate is 7KX like X-ray R214. Police did not attend. The back bumper is crushed, and the rear wheel is rubbing. So, the car cannot be driven safely.

AGENTI've opened the claim for you. Your claim number is NGM-904417, and your assigned adjuster is Priya Shah. She will contact you within one business day. I also arranged for a tow. Eastside Towing should

CUSTOMEROkay, got it. Where will the car be taken after the tow? And can you tell me how much I have to pay? Will I get a rental car? And is my premium going to go up?

AGENTYour car is being taken to Northgate partner repair shop at 9th and Morrison. As for payment, your policy does include collision coverage with a $500 deductible, and rental reimbursement.

CUSTOMERBut he hit me, so I should not have to pay that, right? Do I still need to pay the $500 deductible? And do I get a rental car right away?

AGENTI understand your question, and your frustration. However,

AGENTto this specific situation and answer any other questions you have. She should contact you within one business day. Is there anything else I can help with regarding the claim report itself?

CUSTOMERNo, that covers it. Thank you for your help. Goodbye.

AGENTYou're welcome. I hope everything goes smoothly with your claim. Goodbye.

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