Voice agents no longer trade speed for accuracy: PhoneLLM Mini lands on Workers AI, following instructions and calling tools with thinking off
PhoneLLM Mini, a model from the Pipecat team at Daily, is now available on Cloudflare Workers AI for voice agents and other realtime AI applications. In a voice agent the language model sits between speech-to-text and text-to-speech, so every second it takes adds to the caller's wait; developers usually choose between a fast model without reasoning mode, which can miss instructions or tool calls, and a slower model in reasoning mode, which handles both well. Pipecat post-trained NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Nano 30B on phone and customer support scenarios so PhoneLLM follows instructions and calls tools better without reasoning mode.