Prompt engineering overview

Before prompt engineering

This guide assumes that you have:

1. A clear definition of the feeling you want generated for your use case.
2. Some reference examples of speech that fit your criteria.

If not, we highly suggest you spend some time establishing those first.

When to prompt engineer

This guide focuses on criteria that are controllable through voice and text prompt engineering. Not every success criteria or failing eval is best solved by prompt engineering — for example, latency can sometimes be fixed by ensuring your integration is streaming all the way to your users.

How to prompt engineer

All prompting techniques across voice and text — from accent to style to feeling — are covered in this living reference. See Voice prompting and Text prompting to get started.