feat: live speech-to-text sessions for voice and telephony agents
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2026年10月29日 から。
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Problem
TanStack AI can't turn live audio into text on the server. That blocks the whole voice and telephony agent space: phone agents, call centres, IVR replacement, meeting bots, and voice agents behind an SFU.
generateTranscription()only takes a finished file.- Realtime voice (
useRealtimeChat) connects the browser straight to the provider. The connection reads the microphone itself (startAudioCapture), so a server can't feed it audio from a phone call.
A server-owned voice agent needs to feed audio as it arrives, and get text back while the caller talks. The audio comes from Twilio Media Streams, Telnyx, Plivo, Vonage, LiveKit, an SFU, or a browser WebSocket. Today teams stitch this together from vendor SDKs, then hand the text to chat().
This came up from a user who runs a voice agent on Cloudflare agents with withVoice. Their reply text already comes from chat(). Speech-to-text is the piece TanStack can't provide. See Transcriber in agents/voice for one pipeline's view of the shape.
Proposal
A new activity, a live transcription session, with one provider-neutral adapter contract.
import { transcriptionSession } from '@tanstack/ai'
import { deepgramLiveTranscription } from '@tanstack/ai-deepgram'
const session = await transcriptionSession({
adapter: deepgramLiveTranscription({ model: 'nova-3' }),
audio: { encoding: 'mulaw', sampleRate: 8000, channels: 1 }, // a Twilio call
language: 'en',
})
twilioSocket.on('media', (m) => session.send(m.payload)) // raw audio chunks
for await (const event of session) {
// { type: 'interim', text } text that may still change
// { type: 'final', text } stable text for a segment
// { type: 'turn-end' } the provider thinks the caller finished talking
// { type: 'error', error }
}
await session.close()
Swap the adapter to change provider. Nothing else changes.
Goals
- Runs on the server: Node, Bun, Workers and Durable Objects. No browser APIs.
- One small adapter contract (open, send audio, receive events, close), so providers are cheap to add, including community adapters.
- Telephony audio is first-class: G.711 μ-law and A-law at 8 kHz, plus linear PCM at 8, 16, 24 and 48 kHz. Each adapter declares what it accepts. A shared helper converts formats when the provider can't take the input as is.
- Optional
turn-endsignal, when the provider has endpointing. - Barge-in support: the caller's speech during agent playback must reach the app fast, as interim events.
- Small enough to wrap for other voice pipelines, for example an
agents/voiceTranscriber, in a few lines.
Providers
The first PR ships at least two providers from different vendors. That proves the contract isn't shaped around one API.
| Provider | Package | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Deepgram (Nova-3, Flux) | new @tanstack/ai-deepgram |
Most common STT in telephony stacks. Flux has turn detection |
| AssemblyAI (Universal-Streaming) | new @tanstack/ai-assemblyai |
Turn detection built in |
| ElevenLabs Scribe realtime | @tanstack/ai-elevenlabs |
Package exists |
| OpenAI realtime transcription | @tanstack/ai-openai |
Package exists |
Workers AI (Deepgram models over the AI binding) |
@tanstack/ai-cloudflare |
Package exists. The user who asked |
| Gladia, Speechmatics, Soniox, Google, Azure | community or later |
I haven't confirmed live-streaming support or exact model ids for each row. Check before you build.
Out of scope for the first PR
- A browser hook (
useLiveTranscription). Add it later if people ask. - Streaming text-to-speech audio. Telephony needs it too (μ-law out, sent as it's made), but it's a separate issue.
generateSpeech()returns whole clips today. - Carrier helpers (Twilio, Telnyx and similar message parsing). Document the pattern first.
- A full server voice loop (turn-taking, barge-in, interruption). This issue is the building block for that.
Open questions
- An async iterator of events, or
on(event, handler)callbacks likeRealtimeConnection? - Should events follow AG-UI (
CUSTOMevents), or stay a plain transcription event union? - Where does format conversion live: in
@tanstack/ai, or in a small@tanstack/ai-utilsaudio helper? - E2E: aimock has no live-audio WebSocket mocking. Use unit tests with a fake adapter until it does?
Done when
- Activity and adapter contract in
@tanstack/ai, plus two or more providers from different vendors. - A docs page under
docs/media/, with a telephony example (a Twilio Media Streams call intochat()). - A
media-generationskill update. - Changesets.
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