Voice AI

Voice experiences are valuable. Make every call count with voice AI agents that can handle common requests agentically and route complex issues to the right person as needed. No more clunky menus for customers. No more overloaded call center agents.

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What you can do with voice AI

The possibilities are endless with Twilio Voice AI. Iterate for precise control over agents, scale globally, and make every conversation smarter with context from a persistent customer memory.

  • Customer service headset

    Customer support AI voice agents

    Automate answers to routine questions about order status, billing, or how to troubleshoot simple tasks. Also, authenticate and capture important context and insights before handing off to a human agent.

  • Line Status

    Outbound sales calls and campaigns

    Stop wasting resources on unanswered calls. Increase answer rates with Twilio Branded Calling and see exactly what works, which campaigns miss the mark, and when customers are likely to answer so you can optimize call resources.

  • Mobile notification

    Automated notifications and reminders

    Reduce patient no-shows and missed delivery alerts by automating appointment reminders and payment nudges with AI voice calls.

  • Chat bubbles

    Customer service check-ins and post-resolution follow-ups

    Create flows to follow up with customers after issues are resolved, conduct CSAT surveys, or re-engage customers who are disengaged.

  • Customer service agent

    Agent assistance

    Empower live agents by giving them useful context, recommended next steps, and the ability to generate call transcripts in real time that capture important details.

Make every voice interaction smarter, faster, and more measurable

Use voice AI agents strategically to cut down on idle agent time, boost answer rates, and stop customer churn.

  • Highly manual processes with agents handling most calls

  • Not enough visibility into campaign performance

  • Resource heavy with more agents needed to make more calls

Diagram depicting call center outbound campaign with live agents and 41% unanswered or answering machine rate.
Diagram depicting call center outbound campaign with live agents and 41% unanswered or answering machine rate.

Build the right foundation for voice AI

Voice AI has the biggest payoff when you build on the right foundation, with the right pieces.

Step 1
Define the voice AI opportunity
Before you start building, identify clear problems and business opportunities that can be addressed with AI. Also, evaluate whether your infrastructure and existing data are ready to deploy and scale AI.

Step 2
Map and measure your current voice journey
Set up Trust and Engagement Insights and Conversation Intelligence to see what is currently happening with answer rates, call engagement, and which campaigns are driving results so you can identify where AI voice agents will have the biggest impact.

Step 3
Increase trust, increase answer rates
Set up Branded Calling so your calls show up as verified on customers’ phones. This tells them who you are and why you are calling, so they know it’s a business they trust and can safely pick up.

Step 4 
Design your voice AI strategy
Based on what you learned in the first three steps, determine which calls to automate with voice AI agents and which to keep human led and how you’ll scale your solution based on early results.

Step 5
Build and orchestrate voice AI with Twilio
Use Programmable Voice, Conversation Relay, Media Streams, Speech recognition, and text-to-speech to build AI into voice experiences at scale.

Diagram showing a five-step fraud detection process, including problem identification, data baseline, trust layer, smart routing, and AI orchestration.
Diagram showing a five-step fraud detection process, including problem identification, data baseline, trust layer, smart routing, and AI orchestration.

Voice AI isn’t one size fits all. Neither is our toolset

Measure what is happening, fix what’s broken, and deploy a voice AI solution that delivers ROI.

Phase

Products needed

1. Measure the opportunity

2. Build a trusted foundation

3. Launch AI-led voice experiences

Connect AI to voice calls with a few lines of TwiML

Sign up for a free Twilio account to start building your voice AI application today. Use our quickstarts, up-to-date docs, the Twilio CLI, and Code Exchange to build a prototype quickly.

Blueprint for Building AI-Powered Outbound Calls

See how to build a comprehensive voice AI setup with Branded Calling, Trust and Engagement Insights, and Answering Machine Detection.

Test your Voice AI with synthetic data

Learn how to generate synthetic voice call data to test your voice AI system and analytics without exposing personally identifiable information (PII).

Conversation Relay Onboarding

Start integrating with Conversation Relay to set up your voice AI agent.

const express = require("express");
const twilio = require("twilio");

const app = express();

app.all("/answer", (req, res) => {
  const response = new twilio.twiml.VoiceResponse();

  response.say("Twilio's always there when you call!");

  res.type("text/xml");
  res.send(response.toString());
});

app.listen(3000, () => {
  console.log("Server running on port 3000");
});

Want to build voice AI without coding? No problem.

Work with one of our trusted partners to get coding support or explore a pre-built voice AI agent.

See what else you can do

Support and sales

Amplify customer support with AI self-service, AI assistance, and cross-channel engagement.

IVR

Help customers self-serve with a smarter phone menu that gets them what they need fast.

AI agent productivity

Give every agent — human or AI — the right customer context, a living customer memory, and AI-assisted guidance.

Contact center

Embed contact center functionality into any existing user interface to seamlessly escalate customer workflows.

Call tracking

Set up call tracking to measure campaign effectiveness, accurately attribute calls, and understand caller sentiment.