User Guide: Bring Your Own Model Key for VoiceBot

the bring your own key (byok) feature allows you to integrate your own api credentials for speech to text (stt), large language models (llm), and text to speech (tts) services by providing your own keys, you gain greater control over model usage, billing, and region specific configurations within your exotel voicebot i creating a model configuration rule before you can use your own keys in a bot, you must define a configuration rule in the settings navigate to settings from the main side navigation, go to settings > model configuration add configuration click the "+ add configuration" button to open the new model configuration rule panel name your rule under your model name , give your rule a clear, identifiable name (e g , "company azure stt") configure service type select the tab for the service you wish to configure stt (speech to text) select your provider (e g , speechmatics or azure ) llm (large language model) supported models currently include existing options such as gpt 4o mini tts (text to speech) configure providers like eleven labs or google enter api details provide the required technical details, including region (if applicable) api key save click "add" to finalize the rule ii applying your keys in the bot builder once your configuration rules are created, you can apply them to specific bots through the build bot interface open bot builder navigate to build bot and select the bot you wish to modify access configuration tab click on the configuration tab at the top of the editor select your custom rule navigate to the relevant section (model, speech (stt), or voice (tts)) locate the configuration rule dropdown menu select the custom rule you created in step i (e g , "azure exotel") save changes click the "save" button in the top right corner to apply your own keys to the bot's runtime