Pipecat
Pipecat is an open-source Python framework for building real-time voice and multimodal conversational agents. Build a single voice agent or a full multi-agent system where specialists hand off, fan out in parallel, and coordinate over a shared bus, locally or distributed across processes and machines. Orchestrate audio and video, AI services, transports, and conversation pipelines effortlessly, so you can focus on what makes your agents unique. Want to dive right in? Run pipecat init quickstart or follow the quickstart guide. Voice Assistants, natural, streaming conversations with AI Multi-Agent Systems, specialists that hand off, fan out in parallel, or run as sidecars over a shared bus AI Companions, coaches, meeting assistants, characters Multimodal Interfaces, voice, video, images, and more Interactive Storytelling, creative tools with generative media Business Agents, customer intake, support bots, guided flows Complex Dialog Systems, design logic with structured conversations Voice-first: Integrates speech recognition, text-to-speech, and conversation handling Pluggable: Supports many AI services and tools Composable Pipelines: Build complex behavior from modular components Multi-Agent Ready: Each pipeline is an agent. Compose them with handoff, parallel fan-out, sidecar workers, or distributed deployments Real-Time: Ultra-low latency interaction with different transports (e.g. WebSockets or WebRTC) Building client applications? You can connect to Pipecat from any platform using our official SDKs:
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Pipecat is an open-source Python framework for building real-time voice and multimodal conversational agents. Build a single voice agent or a full multi-agent system where specialists hand off, fan out in parallel, and coordinate over a shared bus, locally or distributed across processes and machines. Orchestrate audio and video, AI services, transports, and conversation pipelines effortlessly, so you can focus on what makes your agents unique.
Want to dive right in? Run pipecat init quickstart or follow the quickstart guide. Voice Assistants, natural, streaming conversations with AI Multi-Agent Systems, specialists that hand off, fan out in parallel, or run as sidecars over a shared bus AI Companions, coaches, meeting assistants, characters Multimodal Interfaces, voice, video, images, and more Interactive Storytelling, creative tools with generative media Business Agents, customer intake, support bots, guided flows Complex Dialog Systems, design logic with structured conversations Voice-first: Integrates speech recognition, text-to-speech, and conversation handling Pluggable: Supports many AI services and tools Composable Pipelines: Build complex behavior from modular components Multi-Agent Ready: Each pipeline is an agent. Compose them with handoff, parallel fan-out, sidecar workers, or distributed deployments Real-Time: Ultra-low latency interaction with different transports (e.g. WebSockets or WebRTC)
Building client applications? You can connect to Pipecat from any platform using our official SDKs:
Pipecat at a glance
| Stars | 16k |
|---|---|
| Forks | 2.7k |
| Language | Python |
| License | BSD-2-Clause |
| Last update | 2026-09-20 |
| Contributors | 345 |
How to install Pipecat
bash git clone https://github.com/pipecat-ai/pipecat.git
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