This guide walks you through the fastest path from a new account to a live AI phone call. You will sign up, create an assistant with a voice and prompt, assign a phone number, and then place a test call to verify everything works.Documentation Index
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Sign up and create your workspace
Go to app.talkturo.com and create an account. After you confirm your email, Talkturo prompts you to create a workspace. A workspace is an isolated environment for your assistants, contacts, phone numbers, and billing.Once inside your workspace, you land on the home dashboard.
Open the Quick Setup Wizard
In the left sidebar, click Assistants, then click Quick Setup Wizard. The wizard walks you through all setup steps in one flow — assistant, business info, phone number, company, contacts, and campaign.If you prefer to configure everything manually, click New Assistant instead and skip to step 3.
Configure your assistant
On the Assistant step of the wizard (or in the Create Assistant dialog), fill in the following fields:Name
Give your assistant a descriptive name, for example
System prompt
The system prompt tells the assistant how to behave. If you are in normal mode, describe your business and Talkturo generates a prompt for you automatically. In Expert Mode, write the prompt directly. You can use CRM variables that are replaced at runtime:Supported variables include
Voice
Pick a voice from the dropdown. In normal mode, Talkturo shows voices from Cartesia. In Expert Mode, you can also choose ElevenLabs, OpenAI TTS, or DashScope (Qwen) voices.Transcriptor (Expert Mode)
Choose the speech-to-text provider and model for transcription:
Select the Language that matches the language your callers speak.Click Next when you are done configuring the assistant.
Sales Appointment Setter.Template
Choose a starting template. Talkturo ships with four built-in templates:| Template | Best for |
|---|---|
outbound-setter | Booking appointments and qualifying leads on outbound calls |
inbound-support | Answering inbound customer questions |
follow-up | Following up with existing leads |
custom | Starting from a blank prompt |
{{contact.first_name}}, {{contact.full_name}}, {{contact.email}}, {{contact.phone}}, {{contact.job_title}}, {{contact.lead_status}}, {{campaign.name}}, {{campaign.description}}, and {{campaign.from_number}}.Language model (Expert Mode)
Select your preferred LLM provider and model. Available providers:| Provider | Example models |
|---|---|
| OpenAI | openai/gpt-4o, openai/gpt-4o-mini, openai/gpt-4.1 |
| Google Gemini | google/gemini-2.5-pro, google/gemini-2.5-flash |
| Anthropic | claude-3-5-sonnet-20241022, claude-3-5-haiku-20241022 |
| DeepSeek | deepseek-ai/deepseek-v3 |
| Qwen | qwen/qwen3-235b-a22b-instruct |
| Kimi | moonshotai/kimi-k2-instruct |
| Provider | Available models |
|---|---|
| Deepgram | nova-3, nova-2, nova-2-phonecall, flux-general |
| AssemblyAI | universal-streaming, universal-streaming-multilingual |
| ElevenLabs | scribe_v2_realtime |
| Cartesia | ink-whisper |
The assistant name and a selected voice are both required before you can proceed.
Purchase or assign a phone number
On the Phone step, select a phone number from your account or click Buy Phone Number to purchase a new one.Talkturo will show you all numbers currently in your account. If you have no numbers yet:
- Click Buy Phone Number.
- Search by area code or country.
- Select a number and confirm the purchase.
Add a company and contacts
The wizard asks you to associate the assistant with a Company and at least one Contact. These become part of your CRM.
- Enter a company name (for example,
Acme Corp) and click Create. - Add one or more contacts with first name, last name, and phone number.
Contacts must have a phone number to be called in campaigns. Contacts marked Do Not Call (DNC) are automatically excluded.
Create your first campaign
On the Campaign step, fill in:
- Campaign name — for example,
Q2 Outreach. - Call window — the daily time range during which Talkturo is allowed to place calls (for example, 09:00 – 17:00 in your timezone).
- Max concurrent calls — how many calls can run at the same time (default: 3).
Make a test call
After the wizard closes, go to Assistants and open your new assistant. Click the Telephony tab.If outbound calling is enabled and a phone number is assigned, you will see a Test button. Click it, then:After the call ends, go to Call Logs to review the full transcript, recording, and AI summary.
- Select the from number (your assigned Talkturo number).
- Enter a to number — your own mobile phone, for example.
- Click Initiate Call.