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xAI Grok audio models now available on Vercel AI Gateway

xAI's Grok audio models just shipped on Vercel AI Gateway. Realtime voice, TTS, and STT are live—with the same routing and observability as your other models.

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Why it matters

xAI expands multimodal reach by making voice capabilities available through a major developer platform (Vercel), lowering integration friction for builders deploying voice agents at scale.

The key facts

7 to know
  1. xAI Grok audio models now live on Vercel AI Gateway

  2. Three capabilities available: realtime voice (xai/grok-voice-think-fast-1.0), text-to-speech (xai/grok-tts), speech-to-text (xai/grok-stt)

  3. Integration available via AI SDK 7 release

  4. Includes routing, observability, and spend controls

  5. Browser component with token-based auth (API key never reaches client)

  6. Playground available for direct model testing

  7. Voice agent architecture: server route + browser component with WebSocket connection

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Vercel Blogvercel.com

Publisher excerpt: are now live on AI Gateway. Realtime voice, text to speech, and speech to text are all available through the with the same routing, observability, and spend controls as your other models.xAI's audio modelsAI SDK These capabilities are available on the AI SDK 7 release. A voice agent has two pieces:…
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