
What is WebSocket?
Recently, we published a blog post describing why WebSockets are great for real-time services. In this article, we describe the process of establishing, maintaining and closing the WebSockets connection.

Recently, we published a blog post describing why WebSockets are great for real-time services. In this article, we describe the process of establishing, maintaining and closing the WebSockets connection.

The WebSocket protocol (commonly referred to as “WebSockets”) enables real time interactive data exchanges between clients and servers, and application-to-application. It is ideal for connecting communications applications to services offered by specialized cloud providers.

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In this digest, we will bring you the latest updates to Voximplant Kit. We have added support for outbound WhatsApp messages, Mobile chats, support for ElevenLabs neural voices, and new automated campaign settings.

The new integration enables instant connection of any Voximplant call to an Ultravox agent, delivering seamless voice-to-voice conversations.

New integrations for Voice AI have arrived: Google's Gemini 2.0 Flash model, featuring seamless voice-to-voice conversation capabilities and ElevenLabs low-latency streaming speech synthesis are now available for Voximplant developers

OpenAI has recently announced GA version of their Realtime API that Voximplant now fully supports

Connect any Voximplant call to ElevenLabs Conversational AI agents

Voximplant now includes a native Grok module that connects any Voximplant call to xAI’s Grok Voice Agent API for real-time, speech-to-speech conversations. With a single VoxEngine scenario, you can interact via audio with Grok over phone numbers, SIP trunks and infrastructure, WhatsApp Business, or WebRTC into Grok — all without building custom media gateways or WebSocket streaming infrastructure.

Today Ultravox announced they are directly integrating Voximplant into their platform to provide SIP capabilities. The integration builds on Voximplant’s deep telephony and Voice AI tooling