> ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://docs.roark.ai/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Update a persona > Updates an existing persona by its ID. ## OpenAPI ````yaml /api-reference/openapi.documented.json put /v1/persona/{personaId} openapi: 3.1.0 info: title: Roark Analytics API description: >- The Roark Analytics API gives you access to the same API that powers the award winning Roark Analytics platform. version: 1.0.0 servers: - description: Production url: https://api.roark.ai security: - Bearer: [] tags: - name: Agent - name: Agent Endpoint - name: Call - name: Chat - name: Metric - name: Metric Policy - name: Metric Collection Job - name: Customer Flow - name: Customer Flow Edge Case - name: Simulation - name: Simulation Persona - name: Simulation Environment - name: Simulation Scenario - name: Simulation Run Plan - name: Simulation Template - name: Simulation Run Plan Job - name: Simulation Job - name: HTTP Request Definition - name: Webhook - name: Issue - name: Autoimprove - name: Agent Config - name: Knowledge Base - name: Config - name: Organization Project - name: Organization Project Member - name: Organization Project API Key - name: Organization Config - name: CLI Auth - name: Me - name: Project - name: Usage - name: Benchmark - name: Health - name: Prospect Simulation paths: /v1/persona/{personaId}: put: tags: - Simulation Persona summary: Update a persona description: Updates an existing persona by its ID. operationId: putV1PersonaByPersonaId parameters: - name: personaId in: path required: true description: The ID of the persona to update schema: type: string requestBody: content: application/json: schema: type: object properties: name: type: string description: The name the agent will identify as during conversations displayName: type: - string - 'null' description: >- Label shown in place of the name across the dashboard (e.g. a short descriptor like "Irate Escalator"). The persona still identifies as `name` on calls. Omit or set null to display the name itself. description: type: - string - 'null' description: Human-readable description of the persona language: type: string enum: - EN - ES - DE - HI - FR - NL - AR - EL - IT - ID - TH - JA - TL - MS - ZH - TR - PT - HE description: Primary language ISO 639-1 code for the persona secondaryLanguage: type: - string - 'null' enum: - EN description: >- Secondary language ISO 639-1 code for code-switching (e.g., Hinglish, Spanglish) understoodLanguages: type: array items: type: string enum: - EN - ES - DE - HI - FR - NL - AR - EL - IT - ID - TH - JA - TL - MS - ZH - TR - PT - HE minItems: 1 description: >- Languages the persona can understand. Multilingual combinations are limited by multilingual speech recognition support. accent: type: string enum: - US - US_X_SOUTH - GB - ES - DE - IN - FR - NL - SA - GR - AU - IT - ID - TH - JP - NZ - PH - SG - MY - HK - TR - PT - IL description: >- Accent of the persona, defined using ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country codes with optional variants age: type: string enum: - CHILD - TEENAGER - ADULT - ELDERLY default: ADULT description: >- How old the caller sounds and behaves. Only ages the persona's accent has a voice for are accepted; defaults to ADULT, which every accent supports. gender: type: string enum: - MALE - FEMALE description: Gender of the persona backgroundNoise: type: string enum: - NONE - AIRPORT - CHILDREN_PLAYING - CITY - COFFEE_SHOP - CONSTRUCTION - CRYING_BABY - DRIVING - LIBRARY - OFFICE - THUNDERSTORM - TRAIN default: NONE description: Background noise setting speechPace: type: string enum: - SUPER_SLOW - SLOW - NORMAL - FAST - SUPER_FAST default: NORMAL description: Speech pace of the persona speechClarity: type: string enum: - CLEAR - VAGUE - RAMBLING default: CLEAR description: Speech clarity of the persona hasDisfluencies: type: boolean default: false description: Whether the persona uses filler words like "um" and "uh" baseEmotion: type: string enum: - NEUTRAL - CHEERFUL - CONFUSED - FRUSTRATED - SKEPTICAL - RUSHED - DISTRACTED - ANGRY - ANXIOUS - SAD default: NEUTRAL description: Base emotional state of the persona intentClarity: type: string enum: - CLEAR - INDIRECT - VAGUE default: CLEAR description: How clearly the persona expresses their intentions confirmationStyle: type: string enum: - EXPLICIT - VAGUE default: EXPLICIT description: How the persona confirms information memoryReliability: type: string enum: - HIGH - LOW default: HIGH description: How reliable the persona's memory is responseTiming: type: string enum: - RELAXED - NORMAL - QUICK - BARGE_IN default: NORMAL description: >- Deprecated and inert: it no longer affects the call. It set how long the persona waited once the agent stopped talking, and measured across production simulations it moved the reply gap by less than the noise floor, because model and speech latency dominate it. Every persona now uses one voice-activity profile. Use `interruption` for a caller who talks over the agent. Still accepted and stored so existing clients keep working. BARGE_IN is stored as `responseTiming: QUICK` with `interruption: OCCASIONAL`. interruption: type: string enum: - 'OFF' - BACKCHANNEL - OCCASIONAL - HEAVY default: 'OFF' description: >- How much the persona talks over the agent while it is still speaking. OFF waits its turn. BACKCHANNEL makes listening noises ("mm-hm") over the agent without taking the floor, which tests whether the agent wrongly stops for them. OCCASIONAL adds cutting in on some long agent turns, HEAVY on most of them. Timing is randomised per turn, so two runs of the same persona do not interrupt at identical moments. backstoryPrompt: type: - string - 'null' description: Background story and behavioral patterns for the persona example: A busy professional calling during lunch break idleMessages: type: - array - 'null' items: type: string description: >- Messages the persona will say when the agent goes silent during a call. null = "Automatic": language-appropriate defaults are used at call time. idleTimeoutSeconds: type: integer minimum: 5 maximum: 60 default: 10 description: Seconds of silence before the persona sends an idle message idleMessageMaxSpokenCount: type: integer minimum: 1 maximum: 10 default: 3 description: >- Maximum number of idle messages the persona will send before giving up idleMessageResetCountOnUserSpeechEnabled: type: boolean default: true description: >- Whether the idle message counter resets when the agent speaks properties: type: object additionalProperties: {} default: {} description: Additional custom properties about the persona example: age: 35 zipCode: '94105' occupation: Software Engineer title: UpdatePersonaInput description: Input for updating an existing persona responses: '200': description: The updated persona content: application/json: schema: type: object properties: data: type: object properties: id: type: string format: uuid description: Unique identifier of the persona name: type: string description: >- The name the agent will identify as during conversations displayName: type: - string - 'null' description: >- Label shown in place of the name across the dashboard (e.g. a short descriptor like "Irate Escalator"). The persona still identifies as `name` on calls. Omit or set null to display the name itself. description: type: - string - 'null' description: Human-readable description of the persona language: type: string enum: - EN - ES - DE - HI - FR - NL - AR - EL - IT - ID - TH - JA - TL - MS - ZH - TR - PT - HE description: Primary language ISO 639-1 code for the persona secondaryLanguage: type: - string - 'null' enum: - EN description: >- Secondary language ISO 639-1 code for code-switching (e.g., Hinglish, Spanglish) understoodLanguages: type: array items: type: string enum: - EN - ES - DE - HI - FR - NL - AR - EL - IT - ID - TH - JA - TL - MS - ZH - TR - PT - HE minItems: 1 description: >- Languages the persona can understand. Multilingual combinations are limited by multilingual speech recognition support. accent: type: string enum: - US - US_X_SOUTH - GB - ES - DE - IN - FR - NL - SA - GR - AU - IT - ID - TH - JP - NZ - PH - SG - MY - HK - TR - PT - IL description: >- Accent of the persona, defined using ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country codes with optional variants age: type: string enum: - CHILD - TEENAGER - ADULT - ELDERLY default: ADULT description: >- How old the caller sounds and behaves. Only ages the persona's accent has a voice for are accepted; defaults to ADULT, which every accent supports. gender: type: string enum: - MALE - FEMALE description: Gender of the persona backgroundNoise: type: string enum: - NONE - AIRPORT - CHILDREN_PLAYING - CITY - COFFEE_SHOP - CONSTRUCTION - CRYING_BABY - DRIVING - LIBRARY - OFFICE - THUNDERSTORM - TRAIN default: NONE description: Background noise setting speechPace: type: string enum: - SUPER_SLOW - SLOW - NORMAL - FAST - SUPER_FAST default: NORMAL description: Speech pace of the persona speechClarity: type: string enum: - CLEAR - VAGUE - RAMBLING default: CLEAR description: Speech clarity of the persona hasDisfluencies: type: boolean default: false description: >- Whether the persona uses filler words like "um" and "uh" baseEmotion: type: string enum: - NEUTRAL - CHEERFUL - CONFUSED - FRUSTRATED - SKEPTICAL - RUSHED - DISTRACTED - ANGRY - ANXIOUS - SAD default: NEUTRAL description: Base emotional state of the persona intentClarity: type: string enum: - CLEAR - INDIRECT - VAGUE default: CLEAR description: How clearly the persona expresses their intentions confirmationStyle: type: string enum: - EXPLICIT - VAGUE default: EXPLICIT description: How the persona confirms information memoryReliability: type: string enum: - HIGH - LOW default: HIGH description: How reliable the persona's memory is responseTiming: type: string enum: - RELAXED - NORMAL - QUICK - BARGE_IN default: NORMAL description: >- Deprecated and inert: it no longer affects the call. It set how long the persona waited once the agent stopped talking, and measured across production simulations it moved the reply gap by less than the noise floor, because model and speech latency dominate it. Every persona now uses one voice-activity profile. Use `interruption` for a caller who talks over the agent. Still accepted and stored so existing clients keep working. BARGE_IN is stored as `responseTiming: QUICK` with `interruption: OCCASIONAL`. interruption: type: string enum: - 'OFF' - BACKCHANNEL - OCCASIONAL - HEAVY default: 'OFF' description: >- How much the persona talks over the agent while it is still speaking. OFF waits its turn. BACKCHANNEL makes listening noises ("mm-hm") over the agent without taking the floor, which tests whether the agent wrongly stops for them. OCCASIONAL adds cutting in on some long agent turns, HEAVY on most of them. Timing is randomised per turn, so two runs of the same persona do not interrupt at identical moments. backstoryPrompt: type: - string - 'null' description: >- Background story and behavioral patterns for the persona example: A busy professional calling during lunch break idleMessages: type: - array - 'null' items: type: string description: >- Messages the persona will say when the agent goes silent during a call. null = "Automatic": language-appropriate defaults are used at call time. idleTimeoutSeconds: type: integer minimum: 5 maximum: 60 default: 10 description: >- Seconds of silence before the persona sends an idle message idleMessageMaxSpokenCount: type: integer minimum: 1 maximum: 10 default: 3 description: >- Maximum number of idle messages the persona will send before giving up idleMessageResetCountOnUserSpeechEnabled: type: boolean default: true description: >- Whether the idle message counter resets when the agent speaks properties: type: object additionalProperties: {} default: {} description: Additional custom properties about the persona example: age: 35 zipCode: '94105' occupation: Software Engineer phoneNumber: type: string description: >- The E.164 number every call with this persona uses, when Roark has pinned one for your project. Present only when set; read-only. example: '+19312830919' createdAt: type: string description: Creation timestamp updatedAt: type: string description: Last update timestamp required: - id - name - language - understoodLanguages - accent - age - gender - backgroundNoise - speechPace - speechClarity - hasDisfluencies - baseEmotion - intentClarity - confirmationStyle - memoryReliability - responseTiming - interruption - idleMessages - idleTimeoutSeconds - idleMessageMaxSpokenCount - idleMessageResetCountOnUserSpeechEnabled - properties - createdAt - updatedAt required: - data '400': content: application/json: schema: $ref: '#/components/schemas/ErrorResponse' description: Validation error example: type: validation code: invalid_parameter message: The request was invalid param: email description: Bad Request '401': content: application/json: schema: $ref: '#/components/schemas/ErrorResponse' description: Authentication error example: type: authentication code: unauthorized message: Authentication required description: Unauthorized '404': content: application/json: schema: $ref: '#/components/schemas/ErrorResponse' description: Not found error example: type: not_found code: resource_not_found message: The requested resource could not be found description: Not Found '500': content: application/json: schema: $ref: '#/components/schemas/ErrorResponse' description: Server error example: type: internal code: internal_error message: Internal server error description: Internal Server Error x-codeSamples: - lang: JavaScript source: >- import Roark from '@roarkanalytics/sdk'; const client = new Roark({ bearerToken: process.env['ROARK_API_BEARER_TOKEN'], // This is the default and can be omitted }); const simulationPersona = await client.simulationPersona.update('personaId'); console.log(simulationPersona.data); - lang: Python source: |- import os from roark_analytics import Roark client = Roark( bearer_token=os.environ.get("ROARK_API_BEARER_TOKEN"), # This is the default and can be omitted ) simulation_persona = client.simulation_persona.update( persona_id="personaId", ) print(simulation_persona.data) components: schemas: ErrorResponse: type: object properties: type: type: string enum: - validation - authentication - forbidden - not_found - conflict - payment_required - rate_limit - internal description: The error type category examples: - validation - authentication code: type: string description: Machine-readable error code identifier examples: - invalid_parameter - missing_required_field - unauthorized message: type: string description: Human-readable error message examples: - The request was invalid - Authentication required param: type: string description: The parameter that caused the error (if applicable) examples: - email - user_id details: description: Additional error context information required: - type - code - message securitySchemes: Bearer: type: http scheme: bearer bearerFormat: JWT ```` This documentation is built and hosted on [Mintlify](https://mintlify.com), a developer documentation platform.