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Retell AI

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the six Ws · specification

W1 Who

Built by Retell AI for businesses automating inbound and outbound phone call handling.

W2 What

Provides speech recognition, LLM reasoning, and text-to-speech orchestration for low-latency phone voice agents.

W3 Where

Delivered as a hosted platform integrated with telephony providers and CRMs like Salesforce and HubSpot.

W4 When

Launched around 2023 and reports powering tens of millions of monthly calls by late 2025.

W5 Why

Automates call center tasks like scheduling, lead qualification, and customer service at scale.

W6 With

Depends on underlying speech and language models plus telephony carriers for call delivery.

W7 Watch

Commercial hosted service, closed source, call audio and transcripts are processed on Retell's cloud infrastructure.

voice agentscall centerlow latencytelephonyturn-taking

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