Best Real-Time Communication AI Tools

Pipecat is an open-source framework designed for building voice and multimodal conversational agents. It can be used to create various applications, including personal coaches, meeting assistants, story-telling toys for kids, customer support bots, intake flows, and social companions. The framework allows developers to build agents that run locally and can be moved to the cloud. It supports real-time media transport using WebRTC, text-to-speech using services like ElevenLabs, and voice activity detection using WebRTC VAD or Silero VAD. Pipecat provides SDKs and examples to help developers get started with building conversational AI agents.