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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:

<a href="https://docs.pipecat.ai/client/js/introduction">JavaScript</a> | <a href="https://docs.pipecat.ai/client/react/introduction">React</a> | <a href="https://docs.pipecat.ai/client/react-native/introduction">React Native</a> |
<a href="https://docs.pipecat.ai/client/ios/introduction">Swift</a> | <a href="https://docs.pipecat.ai/client/android/introduction">Kotlin</a> | <a href="https://docs.pipecat.ai/client/c++/introduct