A real-time AI avatar gives a voice agent a face, and it also puts a third-party media service between your text-to-speech and the user. In a Pipecat pipeline, the avatar service receives your synthesized speech, renders the face, and sends back the audio the user hears. When

Deepgram has announced that it is acquiring Daily, the WebRTC infrastructure provider and a long-time WebRTC.ventures partner. We see this as a positive step for developers building real-time voice AI. Deepgram is an enterprise voice AI platform and one of the providers our team uses for speech-to-text