Pipecat

Pipecat is an open-source Python framework designed to streamline the development of voice and multimodal conversational AI agents. It uniquely manages the complexities of AI service orchestration, network transport, audio processing, and multimodal interactions, allowing developers to concentrate on crafting engaging user experiences. Pipecat facilitates both simple and structured conversations using 'Pipecat Flows' for managing complex conversational states, starting locally, and scaling to the cloud when needed. It offers flexibility in integration with telephone numbers, image and video outputs/inputs, various LLMs and more.

The framework prioritizes a lightweight core, with optional third-party service support that can be added as needed. Developers can quickly test their bots in real-time using a prebuilt WebRTC user interface and Daily's global infrastructure. Pipecat encourages community contribution and offers well-documented examples that serve as jumping-off points for various real-time voice and video applications, with an emphasis on easy-to-use Docker deployments.