r/vapiai

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We built a single API for AI agents with voice, vision, and execution. Taking beta signups now.

u/adultkill — 4 days ago
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I got tired of the latency and high costs of Vapi / Retell, so I built a completely "White-Label" Voice SaaS (500ms latency)

u/here_vii — 13 days ago
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The 'Middleman Trap': Why showing your clients your backend provider is killing your retention.

u/Its_alamin — 14 days ago
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Issues with German / Swiss German transcription in voice agent (missed words + delay)

Hey,

I’m building a voice agent with Vapi using German + Swiss German, and running into a few issues:

  • Audio works fine
  • STT misses simple words (even “hello”)
  • Dialects/accents make it worse
  • Sometimes the agent doesn’t respond at all
  • There’s also noticeable delay

Feels like either model choice / language config / VAD is off.

Questions:

  • Best STT model for German + Swiss German?
  • Better to force de-DE or use auto-detect?
  • Any tips for handling dialects reliably?
  • How do you reduce latency in these setups?

Would love to hear what worked for others 🙏

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u/Sad_Task604 — 1 month ago