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# 🎙️ Pipecat: Real-Time Voice & Multimodal AI Agents
**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](https://docs.pipecat.ai/getting-started/quickstart).
## 🚀 What you can build
- **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
## 🧠 Why Pipecat?
- **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)
## 🌐 Pipecat ecosystem
### 📱 Client SDKs
Building client applications? You can connect to Pipecat from any platform using our official SDKs:
JavaScript |
React |
React Native |
Swift |
Kotlin |
C++ |
ESP32
### 🧭 Structured conversations
Need predefined or dynamic conversation paths with state management? [Pipecat Flows](https://docs.pipecat.ai/guides/features/pipecat-flows) is built into Pipecat. Browse the [examples](https://github.com/pipecat-ai/pipecat/tree/main/examples/flows) to see it in action.
### 🪄 Beautiful UIs
Want to build beautiful and engaging experiences? Checkout the [Voice UI Kit](https://github.com/pipecat-ai/voice-ui-kit), a collection of components, hooks and templates for building voice AI applications quickly.
### 🛠️ Create and deploy projects
The [Pipecat CLI](https://docs.pipecat.ai/api-reference/cli/overview) ships with `pipecat-ai` — install it with `uv tool install "pipecat-ai[cli]"`. Run `pipecat init` to start a project: it sets you up so an AI coding assistant (Claude Code, Codex) builds it for you, and can scaffold a runnable bot in under a minute. Then use the CLI to monitor and deploy your agent to production.
### 🔍 Debugging
Looking for help debugging your pipeline and processors? Check out [Whisker](https://github.com/pipecat-ai/whisker), a real-time Pipecat debugger.
### 🖥️ Terminal
Love terminal applications? Check out [Tail](https://github.com/pipecat-ai/tail), a terminal dashboard for Pipecat.
### 🤖 Claude Code skills
Use [Pipecat Skills](https://github.com/pipecat-ai/skills) with [Claude Code](https://claude.ai/code) to scaffold projects, deploy to Pipecat Cloud, and more. Install the marketplace with:
```
claude plugin marketplace add pipecat-ai/skills
```
and install any of the available plugins.
### 🧩 Community integrations
Build and share your own Pipecat service integrations! Browse existing [community integrations](https://docs.pipecat.ai/api-reference/server/services/supported-services) or check out our [guide](COMMUNITY_INTEGRATIONS.md) to create your own.
### 📺️ Pipecat TV channel
Catch new features, interviews, and how-tos on our [Pipecat TV](https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLzU2zoMTQIHjqC3v4q2XVSR3hGSzwKFwH) channel.
## 🎬 See it in action
## 🧩 Available services
| Category | Services |
| ------------------- | ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| Speech-to-Text | [AssemblyAI](https://docs.pipecat.ai/api-reference/server/services/stt/assemblyai), [AWS](https://docs.pipecat.ai/api-reference/server/services/stt/aws), [Azure](https://docs.pipecat.ai/api-reference/server/services/stt/azure), [Cartesia](https://docs.pipecat.ai/api-reference/server/services/stt/cartesia), [Deepgram](https://docs.pipecat.ai/api-reference/server/services/stt/deepgram), [ElevenLabs](https://docs.pipecat.ai/api-reference/server/services/stt/elevenlabs), [Fal Wizper](https://docs.pipecat.ai/api-reference/server/services/stt/fal), [FunASR](https://docs.pipecat.ai/api-reference/server/services/stt/funasr), [Gladia](https://docs.pipecat.ai/api-reference/server/services/stt/gladia), [Google](https://docs.pipecat.ai/api-reference/server/services/stt/google), [Gradium](https://docs.pipecat.ai/api-reference/server/services/stt/gradium), [Groq (Whisper)](https://docs.pipecat.ai/api-reference/server/services/stt/groq), [Mistral](https://docs.pipecat.ai/api-reference/server/services/stt/mistral), [Moonshine](https://docs.pipecat.ai/api-reference/server/services/stt/moonshine), [NVIDIA](https://docs.pipecat.ai/api-reference/server/services/stt/nvidia), [OpenAI (Whisper)](https://docs.pipecat.ai/api-reference/server/services/stt/openai), [Sarvam](https://docs.pipecat.ai/api-reference/server/services/stt/sarvam), [Soniox](https://docs.pipecat.ai/api-reference/server/services/stt/soniox), [Speechmatics](https://docs.pipecat.ai/api-reference/server/services/stt/speechmatics), [Together](https://docs.pipecat.ai/api-reference/server/services/stt/together), [Whisper](https://docs.pipecat.ai/api-reference/server/services/stt/whisper), [xAI](https://docs.pipecat.ai/api-reference/server/services/stt/xai)