Pipecat
Compose voice and multimodal agents with Python processing pipelines.
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Python developers who want to choose the services and processing stages in a custom voice or multimodal application.
You need a ready-made call-center product without implementing and operating an application.
About Pipecat
Pipecat is an open-source Python framework that connects transport, speech recognition, language models and speech synthesis through processing pipelines. It supports voice and multimodal applications, with self-hosted and managed deployment options. The framework license does not make model APIs, telephony or hosting free.
Pipecat is an open-source project written primarily in Python, with 16k stars on GitHub. It was last updated in September 2026.
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