Open source

Open-source voice agent frameworks

Frameworks for building a program that listens, thinks with a language model, and talks back in real time, over the web or a phone line. You still bring your own speech and language models; the framework wires them together.

ProjectReplacesOpennessStarsLast releaseSelf-host
Pipecat

A Python framework under BSD-2-Clause, maintained by Daily, for real-time voice and multimodal agents, with the widest provider list on this site and telephony serialisers for Twilio, Telnyx, Plivo, Vonage, Exotel and Genesys.

OSI
15,594
Sep 12, 2026
Yes
LiveKit Agents

An Apache-2.0 framework for real-time voice agents that connects any speech, language and voice provider, with semantic turn detection, native MCP tool support, a test framework, and an open-source media and SIP stack it can run on entirely.

OSI
14,230
Sep 15, 2026
Yes
TEN Framework

A real-time conversational AI framework from Agora with a visual designer, a SIP extension and turn detection, released under Apache-2.0 plus conditions that forbid competing deployments, which makes it source available rather than open source.

Source available
11,130
Jul 31, 2026
Yes
Bolna

An MIT voice-agent platform that defines an agent in a JSON file and orchestrates speech to text, a language model and text to speech over websockets, with Twilio and Plivo for phone calls, whose maintainers say they are looking for help.

OSI
763
Sep 16, 2026
Yes

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