> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://docs.rime.ai/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# Introduction

> A quick overview of Rime's speech platform: the default model, deployment options, enterprise features, pricing, and the developer surfaces you build on.

Rime is voice AI **made for human conversation**: natural, low-latency speech for production voice agents, IVR, and telephony.

Its flagship model, Coda, is trained on full-duplex conversations between real people, not voice actors or audiobook narrators. Coda has top-rated voice quality in human evaluations and runs at sub-100ms model latency. The cloud API offers 287 Coda voices across 9 languages. Coda can also run in your VPC or fully on-premises, where the packaged language set may differ.

## Start here

Pick the one that matches what you're doing. Each is a complete path, not an overview.

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  <Card title="Generate your first audio" icon="rocket" href="/docs/quickstart-five-minute">
    One HTTP request, a playable file back, in about five minutes. Start here if you are evaluating Rime or adding speech to an existing backend.
  </Card>

  <Card title="Build a real-time voice agent" icon="messages" href="/docs/voice-agents">
    A conversational agent that listens and speaks. Complete LiveKit tutorial, or direct WebSocket starters for Next.js, Vite, Express, Node, and FastAPI.
  </Card>

  <Card title="Try Rime from the terminal" icon="terminal" href="/docs/quickstart-cli">
    Generate and play speech without writing any code. The fastest way to hear a voice and check response speed.
  </Card>

  <Card title="Run Rime on your own infrastructure" icon="server" href="/docs/on-prem/quickstart">
    Deploy supported models in your VPC or fully on-premises, so audio and text stay inside your network.
  </Card>

  <Card title="Diagnose a failing request" icon="triangle-exclamation" href="/docs/errors">
    What each status code and WebSocket close code means, what the client observes per transport, and what to capture for support.
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## Rime at a glance

| Area | Summary |
| - | - |
| **Product** | Low-latency neural text-to-speech. The flagship model, Coda, reaches sub-100ms model latency (sub-200ms end to end over the cloud API). |
| **Reach** | 500+ voices across the model lineup, including 287 Coda voices across 9 languages, plus instant custom voice cloning. |
| **Deployment** | Regional cloud API, virtual private cloud (VPC), or on-premises with Docker Compose or Kubernetes. |
| **Enterprise** | Unlimited concurrency, unlimited custom voice clones, SLAs, and dedicated support. |
| **Security and compliance** | SOC 2 reports and a HIPAA Business Associate Agreement (BAA). VPC and on-prem keep audio and text inside your own network. |
| **Pricing** | Usage-based. Starter is \$0.05 per 1,000 characters with 3,000 free minutes and 20 concurrent streams. Enterprise uses custom volume pricing. See [rime.ai/pricing](https://www.rime.ai/pricing). |

<Card title="Talk to the team about enterprise, on-prem, or volume pricing" icon="building" href="https://www.rime.ai/pricing">
  Custom deployments, compliance (SOC 2, HIPAA), SLAs, and dedicated support for production scale.
</Card>

## Start with Coda

Coda is the recommended model for new projects, but it isn't the API's default. A request without `modelId` is served by Mist v3, so set `modelId: coda` on every request that should use Coda.

Coda pairs an LLM backbone with a dedicated speech inference engine trained on full-duplex conversations between real people. Through the cloud API, it serves nine languages: English, Arabic, French, German, Hindi, Italian, Japanese, Portuguese, and Spanish. Each voice speaks one of them, so start from the language your application needs and choose among that language's voices.

## Speech capabilities

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  <Card title="Generate speech" icon="waveform" href="/docs/quickstart-five-minute">
    Turn text into playable or downloadable audio in formats suited to web, mobile, telephony, and media workflows.
  </Card>

  <Card title="Stream speech in real time" icon="signal-stream" href="/docs/streaming">
    Use HTTP for simple streaming responses or persistent WebSockets for the tightest conversational loop, with timestamps and interruption handling.
  </Card>

  <Card title="Choose voices, models, and languages" icon="microphone-lines" href="/docs/voices">
    Browse every voice on [Coda](/docs/voices-coda) and [Mist v3](/docs/voices-mist-v3), grouped by language, with the gender, age, and country the catalog publishes for each.
  </Card>

  <Card title="Shape how speech sounds" icon="sliders" href="/docs/prompting">
    Guide delivery, pacing, spelling, pauses, pronunciation, and the way numbers, dates, and other text are spoken.
  </Card>

  <Card title="Build voice agents" icon="messages" href="/docs/voice-agents">
    Begin with a complete LiveKit tutorial or connect Rime directly from Next.js, Vite, Express, Node.js, or FastAPI.
  </Card>

  <Card title="Connect voice platforms" icon="puzzle-piece" href="/docs/livekit">
    Integrate with LiveKit, Pipecat, Vapi, Daily, SignalWire, VideoSDK, and other voice application frameworks.
  </Card>

  <Card title="Create a custom voice" icon="clone" href="/platform/voice-cloning">
    Create a branded enterprise voice and use it through the same speech API as Rime's catalog voices.
  </Card>

  <Card title="Run Rime in your environment" icon="server" href="/docs/on-prem/quickstart">
    Use Rime's regional cloud endpoints or deploy supported models on your own infrastructure.
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## Developer surfaces

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  <Card title="Dashboard" icon="browser" href="https://app.rime.ai/">
    Explore, preview, and save voices, generate speech, and inspect normalized text. Create API tokens, follow setup progress, manage teams, and review usage and billing.
  </Card>

  <Card title="HTTP and WebSocket APIs" icon="brackets-curly" href="/docs/api-reference">
    Generate complete audio responses, stream audio, receive word timestamps, list voices, and use Rime's language tools.
  </Card>

  <Card title="Application code" icon="code" href="/docs/api-cheat-sheet">
    Use standard HTTP and WebSocket clients from Python, JavaScript, Go, or any server-side language. You don't need a Rime-specific SDK. The cheat sheet is the compact parameter and endpoint reference.
  </Card>

  <Card title="CLI" icon="terminal" href="/docs/quickstart-cli">
    Generate, play, and save speech, inspect usage, and test response speed from the terminal.
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  <Card title="MCP server" icon="robot" href="/docs/mcp">
    Let Claude, Codex, and compatible tools browse voices, generate samples, inspect pronunciation and text normalization, and scaffold integrations.
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  <Card title="Application integrations" icon="plug" href="/docs/pipecat">
    Use Rime with supported voice-agent frameworks, telephony services, deployment platforms, and application builders.
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One Rime API token authenticates the API, CLI, MCP tools, and supported integrations. Manage tokens, team access, and billing in the [Rime dashboard](https://app.rime.ai/).


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