We are so excited to bring the community our next challenge with AssemblyAI.
Running through July 27, the AssemblyAI Voice Agents Challenge is all about building with Universal-Streaming, AssemblyAI's most advanced real-time transcription API. Universal-Streaming is ultra fast (300ms latency!), ultra accurate, and offers intelligent endpointing to keep conversations flowing naturally.
There are three distinct prompts for this challenge, with three opportunities to win. We can't wait to see what you build with this transformative technology!
Our Prompts
Business Automation Voice Agent
Build a voice agent that automates real business processes - sales calls, customer support, appointment scheduling, lead qualification, etc. Showcase Universal-Streaming's accuracy in professional contexts with proper nouns, business terminology, and multi-step workflows. Focus on practical B2B/B2C applications that could actually be deployed.
Real-Time Voice Performance
Create the fastest, most responsive voice experience possible using Universal-Streaming. Build an application where sub-300ms latency matters - voice-controlled interfaces, gaming, live translation, instant commands. Demonstrate technical optimization, performance benchmarking, and creative speed-dependent use cases.
Domain Expert Voice Agent
Build a specialized voice agent with deep domain knowledge that can learn and improve from conversations. Focus on expertise in specific fields (legal, medical, technical support, education, etc.) and incorporate RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation) or conversation learning capabilities. Demonstrate how Universal-Streaming enables accurate domain-specific terminology recognition.
Prizes
Each prompt winner will receive:
All Participants with a valid submission will receive a completion badge on their DEV profile.
How To Participate
Sign up for AssemblyAI to get your free API key. There is no credit card required and AssemblyAI provides $50 worth of credits for new users, which should be sufficient for most challenge projects.
In order to participate, you will need to publish a post using the submission template provided. All submissions must:
- Use AssemblyAI's Universal-Streaming technology
- Include an embed of your GitHub repository with the source code
You can use LiveKit as an orchestration framework or explore other options mentioned in AssemblyAI's documentation.
AssemblyAI Challenge Submission Template
Please review our judging criteria, rules, guidelines, and FAQ page before submitting so you understand our participation guidelines and official contests rules such as eligibility requirements.
Need Help?
Join the AssemblyAI Slack Community for support from the Applied AI team! Challenge participants can ask API questions and connect with other developers.
Get familiar with AssemblyAI's capabilities:
Important Dates
- July 16: AssemblyAI Voice Agents Challenge begins!
- July 27: Submissions due at 11:59 PM PDT
- August 7: Winners Announced
We can't wait to see what innovative voice experiences you create! Questions about the challenge? Ask them below.
Good luck and happy coding!
Top comments (26)
Good luck to everyone participating! I've personally been utilizing voice-to-text and realtime conversations with AI Agents more and more. Look forward to seeing what everyone builds.
I have crazy idea for using it in gaming! Will submit this weekend!
Who wants to Enroll to Hogwarts? :)
⚡ Hogwarts Spell Caster: Real-Time Voice Magic with AssemblyAI Universal-Streaming
Nikoloz Turazashvili (@axrisi) ・ Jul 20
Excited to see the ideas that get created. Best of luck!
Good luck, everyone! Little tip, if it helps anyone, look up a package called "Sip Sorcery." If you want to connect the agent to a real telephone call. Will be interesting to see what everyone builds.
Can I use an old submission from a different challenge?
Good luck everyone!
Good luck to the participants
Good luck everyone!
Good luck everyone
Let's go
I may do this challenge for fun. May not be able to make an official entry because of the following line item in the competition:
Good luck, All
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