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
WebRTC was built for browsers, but many WebRTC connections now run through server programs, for example SFUs, gateways, cloud gaming, recording, or AI agents that join calls. Without a browser to handle the connection, each of these programs needs its own WebRTC implementation, usually a library built
Microsoft will retire Azure Communication Services (ACS) as a standalone offering on September 30, 2028. After that date, Microsoft supports ACS video only in applications that connect to Microsoft Teams. Companies that use ACS to embed video in their own products will need a new platform, and
