Technical & DevelopmentIntermediate

azure-ai-voicelive-py

Real-time bidirectional voice AI

Developer Setup

Setup & Installation

bash

npx skills add https://github.com/microsoft/skills --skill azure-ai-voicelive-py

npx skills add https://github.com/microsoft/skills --skill azure-ai-voicelive-py

Or paste this URL into your assistant to install:

https://github.com/microsoft/skills/tree/main/.github/plugins/azure-sdk-python/skills/azure-ai-voicelive-py View on GitHub

Overview

What This Skill Does

Python SDK for building real-time voice AI applications over WebSocket connections with Azure AI. Handles bidirectional audio streaming, voice activity detection, function calling, and transcription in a single async interface. Connects to models like GPT-4o Realtime for low-latency speech-to-speech interactions.

Application

When to use this Skill

Configuring integration settings for custom agent workflows.
Optimizing query execution and response latency in production.
Developing clean, standard-compliant implementations for enterprise services.
Troubleshooting connection timeouts and authentication handshakes.
Monitoring API rate limits and execution pipelines programmatically.

Documentation

Show Skills.md file

Azure AI Voice Live SDK

Build real-time voice AI applications with bidirectional WebSocket communication.

Installation

pip install azure-ai-voicelive aiohttp azure-identity

Environment Variables

AZURE_COGNITIVE_SERVICES_ENDPOINT=https://<region>.api.cognitive.microsoft.com  # Required for all auth methods
AZURE_TOKEN_CREDENTIALS=prod # Required only if DefaultAzureCredential is used in production
AZURE_COGNITIVE_SERVICES_KEY=<api-key>  # Only required for the legacy API-key auth path below

Authentication & Lifecycle

🔑 Two rules apply to every code sample below:

Prefer DefaultAzureCredential. It works locally (Azure CLI / VS Code / Developer CLI) and in Azure (managed identity, workload identity) with no code change. Avoid connection strings, account/API keys — they bypass Entra audit and rotation.

Local dev: DefaultAzureCredential works as-is.

Production: set AZURE_TOKEN_CREDENTIALS=prod (or AZURE_TOKEN_CREDENTIALS=<specific_credential>) to constrain the credential chain to production-safe credentials.

Lines 1 - 25 of 329

Recommendations

Explore other random skills

TechnicalIntermediate

neon-postgres

Best practices for Neon Serverless Postgres

TechnicalIntermediate

neon-postgres-egress-optimizer

Optimize Neon Postgres egress and data transfer

TechnicalIntermediate

claimable-postgres

Claimable Postgres database provisioning with Neon

All skills My patterns