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

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