--- title: Designing Voice AI Workflows Using STT + NLP + TTS description: A comprehensive guide to building real-time voice AI applications using a three-stage pipeline: speech-to-text (Deepgram Nova-3), natural language processing... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/designing-voice-ai-workflows-using-stt-nlp-tts-ksarhjyyb twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Designing Voice AI Workflows Using STT + NLP + TTS | daily.dev og:description: A comprehensive guide to building real-time voice AI applications using a three-stage pipeline: speech-to-text (Deepgram Nova-3), natural language processing... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/designing-voice-ai-workflows-using-stt-nlp-tts-ksarhjyyb og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/ksArhJYyb.png og:image:alt: Designing Voice AI Workflows Using STT + NLP + TTS og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Designing Voice AI Workflows Using STT + NLP + TTS **[Deepgram](https://daily.dev/sources/deepgram)** · 14 min read · 5 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary A comprehensive guide to building real-time voice AI applications using a three-stage pipeline: speech-to-text (Deepgram Nova-3), natural language processing (GPT-4o), and text-to-speech (Deepgram Aura-2). 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