i used to have 0.12 version of livekit-agents that i used to use agent.say to let the agent say the first sentence. now i have updated livekit-agents 1.22 version, and i now use await session.generate_reply instead is it correct?

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both

generate_reply

and

say

exist.

say

emits the text as is,

generate_reply

will use the chat context to generate the reply with the llm node.

Thanks for clearing that up! You’re absolutely right—both

say

and

generate_reply

are part of LiveKit Agents. The

say

method just sends out the text you give it, while

generate_reply

uses the chat context and the LLM node to create a reply on the fly. So, if you want responses that really consider the conversation using the LLM,

await session.generate_reply

is the way to go. But if you just want to send a fixed message without the LLM getting involved, then

say

is your best bet.