Skip to content

Make Kyla the default voice #3

New issue

Have a question about this project? Sign up for a free GitHub account to open an issue and contact its maintainers and the community.

Sign up for GitHub

By clicking “Sign up for GitHub”, you agree to our terms of service and privacy statement. We’ll occasionally send you account related emails.

Already on GitHub? Sign in to your account

Open
dan-ince-aai wants to merge 2 commits into
base: main
Choose a base branch
from
Open

Make Kyla the default voice #3

Show file tree
Hide file tree
Changes from all commits
Commits
Show all changes
2 commits
Select commit Hold shift + click to select a range
f932132
Make Kyla the default voice
dan-ince-aai Oct 28, 2026
84cc52b
Link to the repos in the AssemblyAI org
dan-ince-aai Oct 28, 2026
File filter

Filter by extension

Filter by extension
Conversations
Failed to load comments.
Loading
Jump to
Jump to file
Failed to load files.
Loading
Diff view
Diff view
6 changes: 3 additions & 3 deletions README.md
View file
Open in desktop
Original file line number Diff line number Diff line change
Expand Up @@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ Using Pipecat? See [assemblyai-pipecat-reference-voice-agent](https://github.com
You need [uv](https://docs.astral.sh/uv/getting-started/installation/), [Git LFS](https://git-lfs.com), the [LiveKit CLI](https://docs.livekit.io/intro/basics/cli/) (`brew install livekit-cli`) and an [AssemblyAI API key](https://www.assemblyai.com/dashboard/api-keys).

```console
git clone https://github.com/AssemblyAI-Solutions/assemblyai-livekit-reference-voice-agent.git
git clone https://github.com/AssemblyAI/assemblyai-livekit-reference-voice-agent.git
cd assemblyai-livekit-reference-voice-agent
uv sync
cp .env.example .env.local
Expand All @@ -39,7 +39,7 @@ Wear headphones so the agent doesn't hear itself, or add `--text` to type. Ask w
export ASSEMBLYAI_API_KEY=<your key>
curl -sS https://tts.us.assemblyai.com/v1/speech \
-H "Authorization: $ASSEMBLYAI_API_KEY" -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{"text": "Hi, I am Jane. How can I help?", "voice_id": "aai-jane", "container": "wav"}' \
-d '{"text": "Hi, I am Kyla. How can I help?", "voice_id": "37e65973-9d96-5aab-adcd-01bf56ab5af9", "container": "wav"}' \
-o voice.wav && afplay voice.wav
```

Expand All @@ -61,7 +61,7 @@ Open the repo in Claude Code, Cursor or Codex and describe the agent you want. [

| Building block | Default | Skill |
|---|---|---|
| Voice | Keegan | [tts-voice](skills/tts-voice/SKILL.md) |
| Voice | Kyla | [tts-voice](skills/tts-voice/SKILL.md) |
| Turn detection | `balanced` | [turn-detection](skills/turn-detection/SKILL.md) |
| Speech threshold and interruptions | `0.2` | [interruptions-and-vad](skills/interruptions-and-vad/SKILL.md) |
| Noise suppression | Off | [voice-focus](skills/voice-focus/SKILL.md) |
Expand Down
2 changes: 1 addition & 1 deletion skills/languages/SKILL.md
View file
Open in desktop
Original file line number Diff line number Diff line change
Expand Up @@ -34,7 +34,7 @@ AssemblyAI TTS speaks English, Spanish, German, French, Italian and Portuguese:
tts = assemblyai.TTS(voice=TTS_VOICE, language="es") # "es" or "spanish"
```

The voice must speak the language. The eleven featured voices (`aai-jane`, `aai-michael` and the rest) speak all six; every other library voice, and every cloned voice, speaks only the language it was recorded in. To find voices recorded in a language, see the [tts-voice skill](../tts-voice/SKILL.md) (`&language=spanish`).
The voice must speak the language. The eleven featured voices (`aai-jane`, `aai-michael` and the rest) speak all six; every other library voice, and every cloned voice, speaks only the language it was recorded in. The default voice, Kyla, speaks only English, so change `TTS_VOICE` too. To find voices recorded in a language, see the [tts-voice skill](../tts-voice/SKILL.md) (`&language=spanish`).

With a single-language library or cloned voice, leave `language` out: the voice's own language is used.

Expand Down
4 changes: 2 additions & 2 deletions skills/tts-voice/SKILL.md
View file
Open in desktop
Original file line number Diff line number Diff line change
Expand Up @@ -8,8 +8,8 @@ description: Choose the agent's AssemblyAI text-to-speech voice, find and previe
The agent speaks with AssemblyAI streaming TTS. The voice is set in `src/agent.py`:

```python
TTS_VOICE = "987db62e-a2c2-569a-9c4d-82460cdea1bd" # Keegan
ASSISTANT_NAME = "Keegan"
TTS_VOICE = "37e65973-9d96-5aab-adcd-01bf56ab5af9" # Kyla
ASSISTANT_NAME = "Kyla"
...
tts = assemblyai.TTS(voice=TTS_VOICE)
```
Expand Down
4 changes: 2 additions & 2 deletions src/agent.py
View file
Open in desktop
Original file line number Diff line number Diff line change
Expand Up @@ -44,10 +44,10 @@
# --- Voice: skills/tts-voice ---

# A voice id from https://www.assemblyai.com/docs/tts/voices, or one of your cloned voices
TTS_VOICE = "987db62e-a2c2-569a-9c4d-82460cdea1bd" # Keegan
TTS_VOICE = "37e65973-9d96-5aab-adcd-01bf56ab5af9" # Kyla

# The agent introduces itself by the voice's name; if you change one, change the other
ASSISTANT_NAME = "Keegan"
ASSISTANT_NAME = "Kyla"

# --- Speech-to-text ---

Expand Down
Loading