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/voicelive-agents-quickstart[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