Phonely Launches Alma, a Voice LLM That’s 63% Faster and 84% Cheaper Than OpenAI

Trained on 10 million real phone conversations, Alma answers in under 200 milliseconds where OpenAI’s GPT-4.1 takes roughly 500, and scores higher on call quality Phonely, the leading AI-powered voice agent platform, is taking on the models built by AI’s biggest players with Alma, an LLM built specifically for voice agents to drive conversations forward. […]

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