> ## Documentation Index
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> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# Rime

> Connect Rime to SentiVue Talk

Rime is a speech synthesis platform built for conversational applications. In SentiVue Talk it provides the **voice** that speaks your agent's responses.

## What you need

| Field   | Required |
| ------- | -------- |
| API key | Yes      |

## Getting your API key

1. Sign in to the [Rime dashboard](https://app.rime.ai).
2. Open [**API Tokens**](https://app.rime.ai/tokens).
3. Create a token and copy its value.

Copy the key and store it somewhere safe before leaving the page. A Rime key can synthesize speech against your account, so treat it like a password.

## Adding the connection

1. Go to **Connections** and choose **Rime**.
2. Paste the API key.
3. Save.

Saving stores the key. It is not checked against Rime at that moment, so a wrong or expired key first shows up as a silent agent on a live call — place a test call after saving.

## What you can select afterwards

Choose your voice on [Model Configurations](/talk/configurations/inference-providers).

**Model** — enter the model id, such as `coda`. See Rime's [models page](https://docs.rime.ai/docs/models).

**Voice** — a voice is identified by its speaker name, for example `astra`. Browse the [Coda voices](https://docs.rime.ai/docs/voices-coda) and [Mist v3 voices](https://docs.rime.ai/docs/voices-mist-v3) catalogues.

**Language** — three-letter ISO 639-2 codes such as `eng` or `spa`. A voice belongs to one language, so the code must match the voice you picked.

## Completing the pipeline

Rime drives voice only. You also need:

* A [language model](/talk/configurations/llm) to decide what the agent says
* A [transcriber](/talk/configurations/transcriber) to turn caller speech into text

Each is a separate [connection](/talk/configurations/connections).

## Troubleshooting

<AccordionGroup>
  <Accordion title="The connection saved but the agent has no voice on a call">
    The key is only exercised when a call runs. Confirm you copied the full token from the **API Tokens** page in the Rime dashboard, then place another test call.
  </Accordion>

  <Accordion title="Calls worked and then stopped">
    Rime reports a lapsed subscription the same way it reports a bad key, so a billing problem looks identical to a credential problem. Check the subscription status on your Rime account before regenerating the token.
  </Accordion>

  <Accordion title="A voice name is rejected or speaks the wrong language">
    Voices do not cross languages on Rime, and no voice is available on every model. Confirm the speaker name, the model and the language code are a combination listed together in the [voice catalogue](https://docs.rime.ai/docs/voices-coda).
  </Accordion>

  <Accordion title="Some calls lose the voice under load">
    Rime rejects connections opened too quickly. It does not publish a concurrency figure, so if you run many simultaneous calls, ask Rime support what your account supports rather than inferring it from what you see.
  </Accordion>
</AccordionGroup>