Episode 260 - Turn Your AI Agent into a Voice Agent With Microsoft Foundry

Mark Tucker explores Microsoft Azure's "Voice Live" feature within the newly rebranded Microsoft Foundry. He demonstrates how to take a standard text-based AI agent—in this case, one that talks like a pirate—and instantly give it a voice using WebSockets to bridge speech-to-text and text-to-speech. Mark walks through the differences between the "Old" Foundry (V1) and the "New" Foundry (V2), shows the configuration steps, and dives into a Python code example to connect it all together. Learn more: https://github.com/rmtuckerphx/voicel... [00:00:00] Intro and Holiday Plans [00:00:46] Introducing Microsoft Azure Voice Live [00:02:00] Microsoft Foundry Overview [00:02:46] Creating a Pirate Agent in Foundry [00:04:46] Enabling Voice Live in the Playground [00:07:46] Demo: Speaking with the Pirate Agent [00:08:46] Comparing Old and New Foundry [00:13:46] Code Walkthrough: Voice Live Quick Start [00:15:46] Connecting Version 2 Agents [00:18:46] Conclusion #MicrosoftAzure #VoiceLive #MicrosoftFoundry #AI #VoiceFirst #GenerativeAI #SpeechToText #TextToSpeech #Python #Coding