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Pipecat
Open-source real-time voice-agent framework.
- Who it’s for
- Builders assembling speech-to-speech agents, not a hosted voice bot.
- How it runs
- Tool use + multi-step plans, still human-gated per session.
- Runtime
- self-hosted
- Last ship on file
- Voice-agent stack survey Aug 17 2026
- Limits of this dossier
- Framework, not a finished agent product. Production-stack payloads are surveys, not load tests.
Primary sources
Coverage
- AI Voice Agents Are Now Production Tools. Here's The Stack That Actually Works In 2026.
- Real-Time Voice Agents Are the New Default UI, and the Stack Most Teams Are Using Is Two Years Behind
- Pipecat Is the Open-Source Voice Agent Framework That Quietly Won the Real-Time Stack, and Most of You Have Never Heard of It