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

# AI Teammates

> Real-time conversational video agents that see, hear, and respond with human-like presence.

AI Teammates are TruGen's real-time conversational agents — face-to-face, voice-driven, and vision-aware. Unlike a chatbot or voice assistant, an AI Teammate holds a live video conversation, reads the room, and responds the way a person would.

This page explains how conversation works under the hood, what you can configure, and how to embed one into your product.

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  <img src="https://mintcdn.com/trugen/amqXezd4sybYFS6J/images/call_ui.png?fit=max&auto=format&n=amqXezd4sybYFS6J&q=85&s=64739cb67ea9058e5afb224f04681e2e" alt="Default Call UI" width="2082" height="1268" data-path="images/call_ui.png" />
</Frame>

## Conversation Mechanics

AI Teammates don't just wait for a user to finish speaking — they actively manage the natural rhythm of conversation.

| Mechanic                  | How It Works                                                                                                                         |
| ------------------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ |
| **Speech Recognition**    | Runs continuously and incrementally, capturing partial utterances so the agent can begin reasoning before the user finishes speaking |
| **Turn Detection**        | Detects natural pauses, interruptions, and handovers — the agent knows when to listen, when to speak, and when to yield              |
| **Backchanneling**        | Issues short acknowledgement cues ("mm-hmm", nodding) to signal active listening during user speech                                  |
| **Interruption Handling** | Gracefully stops mid-response when the user interjects, rather than talking over them                                                |
| **Silence Detection**     | Monitors for user inactivity and responds with a configurable idle message or ends the session                                       |
| **Vision Awareness**      | Hawkeye-1 continuously reads gestures, gaze, and body language to feed real-world context into responses                             |

[See the full pipeline →](/docs/agents/pipeline)

## What You Can Configure

Each AI Teammate can be fully configured from scratch, or built from a **Template** — a reusable blueprint you can share across multiple agents to keep behaviour consistent. Either way, you control:

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  <Card title="Persona & Tone" icon="user">
    Define the agent's role, personality, and communication style through a system prompt.
  </Card>

  <Card title="Voice & Language" icon="microphone">
    Choose voice, accent, and language. AI Teammates support multilingual conversations out of the box.
  </Card>

  <Card title="Knowledge Sources" icon="database">
    Attach internal docs, FAQs, product data, or APIs so responses are grounded in your content.
  </Card>

  <Card title="Tools & Function Calling" icon="wrench">
    Connect external APIs and services the agent can call in real time during a conversation.
  </Card>

  <Card title="Entry & Exit Behaviour" icon="door-open">
    Set custom greeting and farewell messages for session start and end.
  </Card>

  <Card title="Session Controls" icon="clock">
    Set max session length, idle timeout behaviour, and recording preferences.
  </Card>
</CardGroup>

[Learn how to create a template →](/docs/agents/templates)

## Capabilities

| Capability              | Detail                                                                      |
| ----------------------- | --------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| **Modalities**          | Audio, video, text                                                          |
| **Response Latency**    | ≤ 1 second end-to-end                                                       |
| **Vision**              | Gesture, gaze, and body language via Hawkeye-1                              |
| **Avatar Rendering**    | Expressive lip-sync, micro-expressions, and emotional nuance via Huma-2     |
| **Languages**           | Multilingual — see [supported languages](/docs/agents/multilingual-support) |
| **Session Recording**   | Optional, configurable per agent                                            |
| **Concurrent Sessions** | Unlimited                                                                   |
| **Uptime**              | > 99.9%                                                                     |

## Quick Integration

The fastest way to deploy an AI Teammate is a single iframe — no SDK, no WebRTC setup, no media pipeline configuration.

```html theme={null}
<iframe
  src="https://app.trugen.ai/embed/{agent_id}?username=USER_NAME&id=USER_ID&context=CONTEXT"
  width="100%"
  height="600"
  frameborder="0"
  allow="camera; microphone; autoplay"
></iframe>
```

Drop it into any frontend — React, Next.js, Vue, Angular, or plain HTML — and your agent is live instantly.

[Full integration guide →](/docs/integrations/embed-via-iFrame)

## What's Next?

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  <Card title="Templates" icon="shapes" href="/docs/agents/templates">
    Create and manage reusable persona blueprints for consistent agent behaviour at scale.
  </Card>

  <Card title="API Reference" icon="book" href="/api-reference/overview">
    Explore the full set of APIs to create and manage AI teammates programmatically.
  </Card>
</CardGroup>