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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.

Test your agent

Speechmatics Linden-1 (own VAD) + OpenAI GPT-6.1 Sol + Cartesia Sonic-3.5

Cascade

Rank on Roark score

#1of 654 stacks

62 / 100

The leader

Where it ranks

Roark score with price65 / 1001 of 654Leads
Task completion96%79 of 655Leader Speechmatics Linden-1 (own VAD) + OpenAI GPT-6.1 Sol + OpenAI TTS-1 HD, 99%
Tool use72%57 of 632Leader AssemblyAI Universal-3.5 Pro + Anthropic Claude Sonnet 5.5 + Cartesia Sonic-3.5, 85%
Time to first word0.7 s79 of 655Leader AssemblyAI Universal-3.5 Pro + OpenAI GPT-6.1 Sol + ElevenLabs Flash v2.5, 0.5 s
Response time3.3 s176 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 budget3.3 s147 of 596Leader OpenAI Whisper-1 + Google Gemini 3.8 Flash + OpenAI TTS-1 HD, 0.5 s
Cost per task$0.17220 of 654Leader Speechmatics Linden-1 + OpenAI GPT-4o mini + OpenAI TTS-1, $0.05

Its models

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.

20 calls
96%Completed

#79 of 661 on the board · best 99%

Flow adherence

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

20 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.

20 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.

20 calls
0.00%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.

20 calls
1.54%avg

p50

1.01%

p95

4.13%

#546 of 661 on the board · best 0.0%

Agent self-cutoffs

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

20 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.

37 calls
0.92per callavg

p50

1.00per call

p95

2.00per call

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

Speech-to-Text

Semantic word error rate

The caller's words the agent's transcriber got wrong in a way that changes the meaning, as a judge reads each difference.

20 calls
2.19%avg

p50

1.18%

p95

7.40%

#572 of 648 on the board · best 0.0%

Word error rate

The caller's words the agent's transcriber missed, changed or invented, against what the caller actually said.

20 calls
5.41%avg

p50

5.19%

p95

10.6%

#602 of 648 on the board · best 1.2%

Text-to-Speech

Readback accuracy

Share of the codes, amounts, dates and phone numbers the agent wrote that its voice read out correctly. One wrong digit is a miss.

20 calls
89.9%avg

p50

90.4%

p95

100%

#152 of 603 on the board · best 100%

Word error rate

The share of the words the agent wrote that its voice dropped or changed, read back from Roark’s transcription of the recording; the same transcriber hears every voice.

20 calls
5.27%avg

p50

4.75%

p95

11.5%

#251 of 648 on the board · best 1.9%

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.

20 calls
3.5/ 5avg

med

4

#332 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.

20 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.

148 turns
3.33savg

p50

3.28s

p95

6.57s

#178 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.

20 calls
0.77savg

p50

0.73s

p95

1.42s

#78 of 661 on the board · best 0.45 s

Latency spikes

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

20 calls
4.45per callavg

p50

4.00per call

p95

7.05per call

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

By industry

IndustryTask completionLatency P50Barge-in handling
Healthcare97%4.29 s—
Home services98%3.10 s—
Insurance89%2.82 s—
Customer support100%3.37 s—

By caller

CallerTask completionLatency P50Barge-in handling
US English, quiet line100%3.33 s—
Spanish-accented English, city street95%3.16 s—
Indian English, busy café92%3.32 s—
Southern US, flustered, crying baby94%3.59 s—
Fast and interrupting, construction outside100%2.97 s—

The calls behind the numbers

Customer support

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

CUSTOMERHi, Alex.

CUSTOMERMy internet's been down for the last two hours.

CUSTOMERI work from home, so it's been pretty disruptive. There's a road crew digging up the street outside, so I'm wondering if that might be the cause. I already rebooted the gateway twice and checked every cable. The internet light is blinking orange. Can you check what's happening on your end? My account number is BW883017.

CUSTOMERSorry, last digit is one.

AGENTThanks—your corrected account number is BW883011. I’ll check for an area outage first. No need to repeat the reboots or cable checks.

CUSTOMERRight? That's exactly what I wanted to clarify. Since the road crew is out there, could you confirm if that's causing the outage in my area?

AGENTI can’t confirm the road crew is responsible. There’s no known area outage, and the line test shows a good signal to your gateway, but it isn’t registered on our network. The recommended next step is a remote reset, which I’ll send now.

AGENTThe remote reset worked—your

CUSTOMEROkay.

CUSTOMERYeah.

AGENTYour gateway is now

AGENTYour gateway is now

CUSTOMERThe.

AGENTYour gateway is registered

CUSTOMERAha!

AGENTYour gateway

CUSTOMERThe.

CUSTOMERInternet.

CUSTOMERThe internet light just went. Solid white. How long until my devices reconnect?

AGENTYour devices should reconnect within about two minutes of the reset. The gateway is confirmed online, and solid white is a good sign. Try opening a website once your device reconnects.

CUSTOMERGot it. I'll check shortly.

CUSTOMERSince I lost two hours of work. Can I get a credit for the downtime?

AGENTI’ve applied a $10.00 service credit for the downtime. It will appear on your next bill.

CUSTOMERI lost two hours of work.

CUSTOMERCan you make it more than that?

AGENTI understand—losing two hours of work is disruptive. The $10.00 credit is confirmed for your next bill, but I don’t have a way here to increase it. You can request a further review from our billing team.

CUSTOMERAll right. Thanks for confirming. I'll reach. Out to billing if needed.

CUSTOMERAppreciate your help. Goodbye.

AGENTYou’re welcome.

AGENTSorry for the disruption today. Goodbye!

Healthcare

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

CUSTOMERYeah, I'm short on time.

CUSTOMERI need to reschedule my dermatology appointment. It's next Wednesday morning. Work shifted, so I can only come after 3 p.m. now. Name's Nate Brooks.

AGENTNate Brooks—what’s your date of birth so I can verify your record? I’ll look for dermatology appointments after 3 p.m.

CUSTOMERMarch 17th, 1948. Sorry. No. 1984. March 17th, 1984. Go ahead and check for times after 3 p.m..

AGENTGot it—March 17, 1984.

AGENTYour dermatology appointment with Dr. Okafor is next Wednesday at 9:15 a.m.

CUSTOMEROkay.

AGENTYour current appointment

CUSTOMERRight.

CUSTOMERYep. I know my current appointment is Wednesday morning. I need it moved to after 3 p.m..

CUSTOMERWhat do you have open?

AGENTDr. Okafor has Tuesday at 3:45 p.m. or Thursday at 4:10 p.m. Which works for you?

CUSTOMEROkay.

CUSTOMERTuesdays.

AGENTWould you prefer

AGENTWould you like

CUSTOMERWhat about Friday?

CUSTOMERIf not, Thursday at 4:10 p.m..

AGENTFriday’s only opening was 11:30 a.m., so I moved your appointment with Dr. Okafor to Thursday at 4:10 p.m. Your confirmation code is RVB-3M8P2. Please arrive 15 minutes early with photo ID and your insurance card.

CUSTOMERWorks. Fine.

CUSTOMERFor a fee for changing the appointment.

AGENTChanges made more than 24 hours before the appointment are free. Within 24 hours, there’s a $40 fee.

CUSTOMEROkay.

CUSTOMERAll right. Where should I park. When I come in?

AGENTPark in Lot C—patient parking is free. The entrance is on River Road.

CUSTOMERDoes Doctor Okafor accept Aetna insurance?

AGENTI can’t verify whether Dr. Okafor accepts Aetna with the information available.

CUSTOMERGot it.

CUSTOMERAll right. That's everything I needed.

CUSTOMERGoodbye.

AGENTYou’re welcome, Nate. Goodbye!

Home services

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

CUSTOMERSorry, I'm a little flustered here. My baby's crying and the pipe under my kitchen sink just burst.

CUSTOMERWater spreading everywhere. It's getting close to a power strip.

CUSTOMERCan you send someone out for an emergency repair?

AGENTYes—I can help arrange an emergency repair. First, keep yourself and your baby away from the water and power strip. Don’t touch or unplug the strip, and don’t step into water near it. If you can reach your main water shutoff without entering the wet area, turn it off. If your breaker panel is dry and safely accessible, shut off power to the kitchen. If there’s sparking, smoke, or anyone has been shocked, move away and call 911. Are you and your baby somewhere dry and safe? What’s the service address, including any unit number, and your callback number?

CUSTOMERYeah, we're both okay. I've got us away from the water.

CUSTOMERSorry, I just.

CUSTOMERLet me do what you said.

CUSTOMERI'll go shut the water off now. Okay.

CUSTOMERIt stopped.

CUSTOMERThank you for walking me through that.

CUSTOMERMy address is 1480 Larkspur Avenue, unit 4D.

CUSTOMERI just moved from Phoebe last month, so please make sure it's 4D.

CUSTOMERWhen I call back, number is (503) 555-0139.

CUSTOMERYo 0193.

CUSTOMERIs that all right?

AGENTYes—I'm using 1480 Larkspur Avenue, unit 4D, not the old unit on file. Did you mean your callback number is (503) 555-0193? The earliest emergency arrival window is today, 2–4 PM. Your Copperline Care member emergency callout fee is $99. Do you agree to that fee and window? Also, is there a gate code or any access instructions?

CUSTOMERSorry. Um, is there any way. Someone could come before 2 p.m.?

CUSTOMERI'm just worried about how much water got under there. And, yes, the callback number is (503) 555-0193.

CUSTOMERThe gate code is.

CUSTOMERPound 2719.

CUSTOMERCan you tell me who's coming and how I'll know they're on the way?

AGENTI understand your concern. Today, 2–4 PM is the earliest arrival window available. I don’t have a technician’s name or confirmed notification details, so I can’t tell you yet who’s coming or how you’ll be notified. I’ve noted the gate code as #2719 and confirmed your callback number as (503) 555-0193. Keep the water off and stay away from the wet area near the power strip. Shall I book the 2–4 PM window with the $99 member emergency callout fee?

CUSTOMEROkay, I guess I don't have much. Choice, so please book that 2 to 4 p.m. window. $99. Right.

CUSTOMERCould you give me the ticket number for this?

CUSTOMERJust so I have it on hand.

CUSTOMERAnd if you do get any notification details, please let me know.

CUSTOMERSorry for being a bother. I just need to make sure everything's squared away.

AGENTYou’re

CUSTOMERHello.

AGENTI’m here—you’re not a bother. Your emergency visit is confirmed: - Today, 2–4 PM, with technician Dana. - Emergency callout fee: $99. - Ticket: CPL-58210. - Address: 1480 Larkspur Avenue, unit 4D. - Gate code: #2719. - Callback: (503) 555-0193. Dana will text that number 30 minutes before arrival. Keep the water shut off and stay away from the wet area near the power strip until it’s safe.

CUSTOMEROkay. Thank you so much for confirming all that.

CUSTOMERI've got the ticket number.

CUSTOMERCPL 58,210.

CUSTOMEROh, wait for Dana's

AGENTYou’re welcome. Yes, that’s ticket

CUSTOMERtext. I really appreciate your help today.

AGENTCPL-58210. Dana will text you about 30 minutes before arriving, within today’s 2–4 PM window. Keep the water off and you and your baby away from the wet area.

Insurance

AGENTNorthgate Mutual claims, this is Alex. Are you somewhere safe right now?

CUSTOMERLa.

CUSTOMERYeah. I'm at. Home right now.

CUSTOMERI got the baby here, so he's pretty loud. Sorry. I just wanted to make sure y'all could help me with my claim.

CUSTOMERIs that okay?

AGENTOf course—we can help with your claim, and no need to apologize for the noise. Was anyone injured in the accident? If anyone is hurt or in danger, please call 911 first.

CUSTOMERNo.

CUSTOMERUh, nobody got hurt. Thank goodness.

CUSTOMERIt was just the cars. Sorry.

CUSTOMERI probably should have said that sooner.

CUSTOMERIs that all right?

AGENTThat’s all right—no need to apologize. I’m glad no one was hurt. Could you give me your policy number and the policyholder’s last name so I can verify the policy?

CUSTOMEROkay, uh. Let me get that for you.

CUSTOMERThe policy number is NG4471903.

CUSTOMEROh, hang on, sorry, the last one is two, not three.

CUSTOMERSo NG4471902.

CUSTOMERAnd the last name is Carter.

CUSTOMERIs that what you needed?

AGENTYes, thank you. That’s policy number NG4471902, with a two at the end, and the last name Carter. I’ll verify that now.

AGENTYour policy is verified for a 2021 Honda CR-V. When and where did the accident happen, and can you tell me what happened? Take your time.

CUSTOMERThanks for checking.

CUSTOMERSo it was about 20 minutes ago. I think. I was stopped at a red light at 55th Avenue and Alder Street.

CUSTOMERAnother car hit the back of my car. My bumpers crushed and the rear wheels rubbing so I can't drive it.

CUSTOMERNobody's hurt. But police didn't come.

CUSTOMERIs that enough for

AGENTYes, that’s a helpful start. I’ve noted that you were rear-ended at a red light at 55th Avenue and Alder Street about 20 minutes ago, no one was injured, and police didn’t attend. With the rear wheel rubbing, please don’t drive the car. I can arrange a tow. What city and state was this in, and where is the car now? Also, do you have the other driver’s name, insurance company, and license plate? It’s okay if you don’t have all of those.

CUSTOMERyou? I think I got most of. That, but I'm sorry if I missed something.

CUSTOMERThe accident was in Portland, Oregon. The car's at my house right now.

CUSTOMERI had it brought here, so it's safe.

CUSTOMERThe other driver's name is Kevin Lund, and he's insured with Pacific Shore.

CUSTOMERHis license plate is 7KX, like X-ray R 214. Is that all right, or do you need more?

AGENTThat’s enough to open the claim, thank you. I have Kevin Lund, insured with Pacific Shore, and plate 7KXR214—seven, K, X as in X-ray, R, two,

CUSTOMERI.

AGENTTake your time.

CUSTOMEROkay.

AGENTYour claim is open. The claim number is NGM-904417—N, G, M, dash, nine, zero, four, four, one, seven. Your assigned adjuster is Priya Shah, who will contact you within one business day. To finish reading back the other driver’s plate, I recorded 7KXR214—seven, K, X as in X-ray, R, two, one, four. Is that correct? Since the car is safely at home, do you need a tow from there to a repair shop?

CUSTOMERYeah. I. Do need a tow.

AGENTJust

CUSTOMERSorry to ask,

AGENTNo need to apologize—I

CUSTOMERbut. I want to

CUSTOMERmake sure. All

AGENTNo need to apologize. What did you want to ask?

CUSTOMERright. Thanks.

CUSTOMERUm, I just. Want to

AGENTTake your time. I’m listening.

CUSTOMERknow. Do I have to pay anything out of pocket?

CUSTOMEROkay.

CUSTOMERThank you. So,

CUSTOMERum. Do I have to. Pay a deductible for

CUSTOMERthis? Because he hit

CUSTOMERme. So I should not have to pay that. Right?

AGENTYour policy has a $500

CUSTOMERAnd. All right.

AGENTI understand why you’d

CUSTOMERSo.

AGENTYour collision deductible

CUSTOMERBe. Yeah, I can give

AGENTYour collision deductible is $500. I can’t promise it will be waived or recovered just because the other driver hit you. Priya, your adjuster, can explain how it applies to your claim. Your towing coverage is up to 25 miles. What’s your home address, including ZIP code, and the best callback number so I can arrange the tow?

CUSTOMERyou that. My home address

CUSTOMERis. 1660 Alder Street, Portland.

AGENTI’m ready when you are.

CUSTOMEROregon.

AGENTThank

CUSTOMEROkay.

CUSTOMERSorry for

AGENTNo need to apologize.

CUSTOMERthe wait. So it's 1660 Alder

CUSTOMERStreet. All right.

AGENTNo need to apologize. I have 1660 Alder Street, Portland, Oregon. What’s the ZIP code and best callback phone number for the tow driver?

CUSTOMERUh, the zip code. Is 97214.

AGENTGot it—1660

CUSTOMERMy. Okay, so, um, just to be

AGENTI’ve got ZIP

CUSTOMERsure. Will I get a. Rental car while mine's

CUSTOMERin the shop?

AGENTcode

CUSTOMERSorry. Um, is my premium going to go up because of this?

AGENTYour policy includes

CUSTOMERI just want to make sure nothing else gets. Messed up

CUSTOMERfor me.

AGENTYour policy covers rental

CUSTOMERAll right. Yeah.

AGENTYour policy includes rental reimbursement of up to $40 per day for up to 30 days, starting the day the claim is opened. That doesn’t confirm a rental reservation. I can’t tell you whether your premium will go up from the information available. Your adjuster can help direct that question to the right team. For the tow, I have 1660 Alder Street, Portland, Oregon 97214. What’s the best phone number for the tow driver to call?

CUSTOMERSorry. My phone number is 1660386.

AGENTWhenever you’re ready, what’s the best callback number for the tow driver?

CUSTOMEROh, sorry, it's. 16603861106. Is that all right. For them

AGENTNo need to apologize. I heard 16603861106. Could you repeat it in groups—area code first, then the rest—so I give the tow driver the right number?

CUSTOMERto call? Yeah. Sure

CUSTOMERthing. So it's 16603.

AGENTYes, it’s for the tow driver

CUSTOMEREight six. All right. So for the tow driver it's 16603.

CUSTOMER861106.

CUSTOMERIs

AGENTI’m hearing 16603861106 again. Is the first “1” the U.S. country code, followed by area code 660 and number 386-1106?

CUSTOMERthat okay.

CUSTOMERSorry. That's my full

CUSTOMERphone number. 16603861106.

AGENTThat’s okay—just to confirm, should the tow driver dial 1-660-386-1106?

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