💥 Anyone know how to embed the CHAT
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Eddie Irvin
05/14/2025, 1:33 PM💥 Anyone know how to embed the CHAT feature in Vapi on a website? To type, instead of talk?
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Pigeon
05/14/2025, 1:34 PMe
Eddie Irvin
05/14/2025, 1:35 PMSome people want to chat instead of talk. Allowing both options is ideal
Having it within one system is also ideal
Eddie Irvin
05/14/2025, 1:35 PM@Pigeon
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Pigeon
05/14/2025, 1:40 PMWell, using VAPI just for chat is just wrong way of doing chat 🙂
I understand if you want both, there's currently no API for chat, so youd need to extract text from webhooks and stream human responses to Vapi
Pigeon
05/14/2025, 1:41 PMthere's speech-update webhook event, that updates both ai and human text
Pigeon
05/14/2025, 1:41 PMOr do it with custom-llm, do chat without vapi, voice side with vapi
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Eddie Irvin
05/14/2025, 1:52 PMSo for a site where we want voice agent AND chat agent, even though VAPI already has a perfectly functioning chatbot, we have to build a totally separate system instead, got it.
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Pigeon
05/14/2025, 1:54 PMIts really not hard to implement with custom-llm
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Eddie Irvin
05/14/2025, 1:55 PMI know
I'll have to do it
But damn they already have the chat code. Literally all i need is an embed tag and I'm done
One day they'll figure out that allowing that too will be advantageous for their business model
But I get it, vapi wants to stay in voice space
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Pigeon
05/14/2025, 2:09 PMCreating new api is not a simple thing, its a lot of work, even for chat
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Eddie Irvin
05/14/2025, 2:15 PMDisagree:) Respectfully. I understand it's some work but I've built tons of apis. They already have the code for the chat to run and integrate with the model and the rest of the vapi system, building that was the hardest part.
I'm guessing either that they will add chat capability, or a competitor will allow both.
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Pigeon
05/14/2025, 2:16 PMAh, armchair expert... 😄 Ok.
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Eddie Irvin
05/14/2025, 2:17 PMi've been developing for 15 years man. Ok
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Pigeon
05/14/2025, 2:17 PMYou built many APIs and cant throw together simple LLM for chat? 😄
Eddie Irvin
05/14/2025, 2:17 PMI can do it, I already said that. But I'd rather just embed the system they already have.
Eddie Irvin
05/14/2025, 2:17 PMIt's called being efficient and saving time
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Pigeon
05/14/2025, 2:18 PMits called being weird
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Eddie Irvin
05/14/2025, 2:18 PMHaha
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Pigeon
05/14/2025, 2:19 PMYou can always reques a feature https://vapi.canny.io/feature-requests
If a lot of poeple vote for it Vapi will definetely do it