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 listed in this index written primarily in Python, with 17k stars on GitHub. Its latest recorded repository push was in October 2026; that is not an ASE editorial review date.
Pipecat and related category tools
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| Pipecatthis listing | 17k | Python | BSD-2-Clause | Costs not checked |
| LiveKit Agents | 15k | Python | Apache-2.0 | Costs not checked |
