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You are customer support teams and need: Automate customer support calls and resolve requests using CRM, billing, orders, and shipping data
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Paid · From $0.015 per 1,000 characters

Overview

Boson AI is a voice AI platform for business-critical workflows. It provides real-time speech-to-speech agents, text-to-speech, speech-to-text, and avatar generation through its Higgs Realtime and Higgs Audio products. The platform supports low-latency conversations, interruption handling, tool calling, domain-specific training, more than 100 languages, and integration with existing production systems. Its API is compatible with the OpenAI Realtime API and is designed for customer support, sales, AI receptionists, and other business applications.

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Best for

Short scenarios where Boson AI tends to shine.

  • Automate customer support calls and resolve requests using CRM, billing, orders, and shipping data

    Best for Customer support teams

  • Build AI receptionists that answer and route business calls

    Best for Sales teams

  • Create sales agents for prospect qualification and outbound calls

    Best for Call center operators

  • Generate multilingual voice content with text-to-speech

    Best for Enterprise software developers

  • Create talking-head avatar videos from still images and audio

    Best for AI product managers

  • Deploy product assistants that can listen, reason, and call tools in real time

    Best for Conversational AI engineers

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Sample generations and before/after results for Boson AI.

Access & connections

Where you can use Boson AI.

Platforms

Web

Capabilities

What this tool accepts, produces, and is strongest at.

Highlights

  • Real-time speech-to-speech voice agents
  • Low-latency responses with interruption handling
  • Tool calling and integration with production business systems
  • Text-to-speech and speech-to-text in more than 100 languages
  • Talking-head avatar generation from images and audio
  • Domain-specific training on business data
  • OpenAI Realtime API-compatible interface

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FAQ 11

What is Boson AI?
Boson AI is a voice AI platform for business-critical workflows. It provides real-time speech-to-speech agents, text-to-speech, speech-to-text, and avatar generation through its Higgs Realtime and Higgs Audio products. The platform supports low-latency conversations, interruption handling, tool calling, domain-specific training, more than 100 languages, and integration with existing production systems. Its API is compatible with the OpenAI Realtime API and is designed for customer support, sales, AI receptionists, and other business applications.
How to use Boson AI?
Create a Boson AI API key, use the API or API-compatible integrations, and connect Higgs Realtime or Higgs Audio to your business systems. Configure an agent for your domain, provide access to tools such as CRM, orders, billing, or documentation systems, and deploy it for real-time customer conversations, sales calls, support, TTS, transcription, or avatar generation.
What is Boson AI used for?
Boson AI is used to build voice agents and audio-powered business workflows for customer support, sales, AI receptionists, product assistants, TTS, transcription, and avatar generation.
What is Higgs Realtime?
Higgs Realtime is a low-latency speech-to-speech model for agents that listen, reason, call tools, handle interruptions, and respond in real time.
How many languages does Boson AI support?
Boson AI states that its real-time voice capabilities and production TTS support more than 100 languages.
Does Boson AI support business system integrations?
Yes. Boson AI supports tool calling and integration with existing production systems, including workflows involving CRM, orders, billing, shipping, documentation, and customer profiles.
Is Boson AI compatible with the OpenAI Realtime API?
Yes. Higgs Realtime provides an API compatible with the OpenAI Realtime API.
Does Boson AI offer free credits?
Yes. New accounts receive $10 in free trial credit.
How much does Higgs TTS 3 cost?
Higgs TTS 3 costs $0.015 per 1,000 input characters. Generated audio is free, and every letter, number, punctuation mark, symbol, space, and line break counts as one character.
How much does Higgs Avatar cost?
Higgs Avatar starts at $0.07 per minute for 640 × 480 and 480 × 640 output. Square 640 × 640 output costs $0.09 per minute.
How is Higgs Realtime priced?
Higgs Realtime uses usage-based billing. Listed rates include $0.75 per 1 million input tokens, $0.25 per 1 million cached input tokens, $4.50 per 1 million output tokens, and $0.0025 per minute of transcription input. Estimated audio rates are $0.0023 per minute for audio input and $0.014 per minute for audio output.
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