This endpoint updates a persona using a JSON Patch payload (RFC 6902). You can modify **any field within the persona** using supported operations like `add`, `remove`, `replace`, `copy`, `move`, and `test`.

For example:

<Note>
Ensure the `path` match the current persona schema.
</Note>

```json
[
  { "op": "replace", "path": "/persona_name", "value": "Wellness Advisor" },
  { "op": "replace", "path": "/default_replica_id", "value": "r79e1c033f" },
  { "op": "replace", "path": "/context", "value": "Here are a few times that you have helped an individual make a breakthrough in..." },
  { "op": "replace", "path": "/layers/llm/model", "value": "tavus-gpt-4o" },
  { "op": "replace", "path": "/layers/tts/tts_engine", "value": "cartesia" },
  { "op": "add", "path": "/layers/tts/tts_emotion_control", "value": "true" },
  { "op": "remove", "path": "/layers/stt/hotwords" },
  { "op": "replace", "path": "/layers/perception/perception_tool_prompt", "value": "Use tools when identity documents are clearly shown." }
]
```


apiKey

Patch Persona

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Introduction

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Overview of Tavus' Replica offerings- Stock Replicas and Personal Replicas, all powered by the Phoenix AI model. Get tips on how to create the perfect replica, and how to get a high quality output.

Overview

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Replica Training

Learn how to use our API endpoints to create replicas.

Creating a Replica Via API

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Stock Replicas

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Personal Replicas

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Quick Start

Creating a Conversation

Creating a Persona

Layers and Modes Overview

Stock Personas

Using Replicas in CVI

Turn Taking with Sparrow

Learn how to configure the perception layer with Raven.

Perception with Raven

Frequently asked questions about Tavus's Conversational Video Interface

Learn how to generate high-quality videos using Stock or Personal Replicas

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Replica Selection

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Scripting

Synchronize audio with existing videos using Tavus's lipsync service. Easily create videos where the speaker's mouth movements match the provided audio.

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API Errors and Status Details

This guide includes an overview of different callback formats you might see from the API.

API Callbacks

Changelog

Create and customize a digital replica's personality for Conversational Video Interface (CVI). A persona defines the replica's behavior and capabilities through configurable layers including:

**Core Components:**
- Replica - Choice of audio/visual appearance 
- Context - Customizable contextual information, for use by LLM 
- System Prompt - Customizable system prompt, for use by LLM
- Layers
  - STT - Transcription, turn taking, and Sparrow-0 settings 
  - LLM - Language model settings 
  - TTS - Text-to-Speech settings
  {/*- STS - Speech-to-Speech settings*/}
  - Perception - Multimodal vision and understanding settings (Raven-0)

When creating a conversation, the persona configuration determines how the replica interacts, processes information, and responds to participants. Each layer can be fine-tuned to achieve the desired conversational experience.

<Warning>
When using **full pipeline mode**, the `system_prompt` field is required.
</Warning>


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Interact with the replica during live conversations.

This is an event developers may broadcast to Tavus.

By broadcasting this event, you are able to tell the replica what to exactly say. Anything that is passed in the `text` field will be spoken by the replica.

This is commonly used in combination with the [Interrupt Interaction](/sections/event-schemas/conversation-interrupt).


Echo Interaction

This is an event developers may broadcast to Tavus.

By broadcasting this event, you are able to send text that the replica will to respond to. The text you provide in the event will essentially be treated as the user transcript, and will be responded to as if the user had uttered those phrases during conversation.


Text Respond Interaction

This is an event developers may broadcast to Tavus.

By broadcasting this event, you are able to update the VAD (Voice Activity Detection) sensitivity of the replica in
two dimensions. 
- participant_pause_sensitivity
- participant_interrupt_sensitivity

The supported values are `superlow`, `verylow`, `low`, `medium`, and `high`.

Learn more about the `sensitivity`: [Get Started with Your Own STT](/sections/conversational-video-interface/custom-stt-onboarding)


Sensitivity Interaction

This is an event developers may broadcast to Tavus.

By broadcasting this event, you are able to externally send interruptions for the replica to stop talking. This is commonly used in combination with [Text Echo Interactions](/sections/event-schemas/conversation-echo).


Interrupt Interaction

This is an event broadcasted by Tavus.

An utterance event is broadcasted by Tavus when the replica is interrupted by the user while it is speaking.


Replica Interrupted Event

This is an event developers may broadcast to Tavus.

By broadcasting this event, you are able to overwrite the `conversational_context` that the replica uses to generate responses. 

If `conversational_context` was not provided during conversation creation, the replica will start using the `context` you provide in this event as `conversational_context`.

Learn more about the `conversational_context`: [Create Conversation](/api-reference/conversations/create-conversation)


Overwrite Conversational Context interaction

This is an event broadcasted by Tavus.

An `utterance event` is broadcasted by Tavus at specific times: the user’s utterance is sent when the replica begins speaking, and a separate event for the replica’s utterance is also sent as the replica starts to speak. Each event contains the content of the respective utterance as well as an indication of who spoke it.

An `utterance` includes all of the words spoken by the user or replica measured from when the person started speaking to when they finshed speaking. This could include multiple sentences or phrases.

Utterance events can be used to keep track of what the user or the replica has said.


Utterance Event

This is an event broadcasted by Tavus.

A `tool_call` event is broadcasted by Tavus when an LLM tool call should be made. The event will contain the name and arguments of the function that should be called.

Tool call events can be used to make calls to external APIs or databases.


Tool Call Event

This is an event broadcasted by Tavus.

A `replica.started_speaking/stopped_speaking event` is broadcasted by Tavus at specific times: 

conversation.replica.started_speaking means the replica has just started speaking.
conversation.replica.stopped_speaking means the replica has just stopped speaking.

When the `replica.stopped_speaking` event is sent, a `duration` field will be included in the event's `properties` object, indicating how long the replica was speaking for in seconds. This value may also be null.

These events are intended to act as triggers for actions within your application. For instance, you may want to
start a video or show a slide at times related to when the replica started or stopped speaking.

The inference_id can be used to correlate other events and tie things like conversation.utterance or tool_call
together.


Replica Started/Stopped Speaking Event

This is an event broadcasted by Tavus.

A `user.started_speaking/stopped_speaking event` is broadcasted by Tavus at specific times: 

conversation.user.started_speaking means the user has just started speaking.
conversation.user.stopped_speaking means the user has just stopped speaking.

These events are intended to act as triggers for actions within your application. For instance, you may want to
take some user facing action, or backend process at times related to when the user started or stopped speaking.

The inference_id can be used to correlate other events and tie things like conversation.utterance or tool_call
together. 

Keep in mind that with speculative_inference, the inference_id will frequently change while the user is speaking so
that the user.started_speaking inference_id will not usually match the conversation.utterance inference_id


User Started/Stopped Speaking Event

This is an event broadcasted by Tavus.

A `perception_tool_call` event is broadcasted by Tavus when a perception tool is triggered based on visual context. The event will contain the tool name, arguments, and encoded frames that triggered said tool call.

Perception tool calls can be used to trigger automated actions in response to visual cues detected by the Raven perception system.


Perception Tool Call Event

This is an event broadcasted by Tavus.

This is fired after ending a conversation, when the replica has finished summarizing the visual artifacts that were detected throughout the call. This is a feature that is only available when the persona has `raven-0` specified in the [Perception Layer](/sections/conversational-video-interface/raven).


Perception Analysis

Learn how to embed Tavus's Conversational Video Interface (CVI) into your site or app.

Embed Conversational Video Interface

You can set up a custom S3 bucket, enable recordings in rooms, and get notified when recordings are ready to be shared.

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