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
If you run WebRTC at scale, a large share of your media goes through TURN relays. Restrictive NATs, enterprise firewalls, and clients that hide their IP addresses all push sessions onto relayed candidates, and when TURN server performance drops under load, call quality drops with it. This
Amazon Interactive Video Service Real-Time Streaming (Amazon IVS Real-Time) is a WebRTC-based service for low-latency interactive video applications like video conferencing and live collaboration. Unlike traditional CPaaS platforms that abstract away media handling with higher-level APIs, IVS Real-Time gives developers direct access to WebRTC primitives like MediaStreamTrack
Earlier this month, our CTO Alberto Gonzalez and I descended upon Las Vegas for AWS re:Invent 2025. As an AWS Partner working daily with AWS services to build real-time voice, video, and AI systems, re:Invent is more than a conference for us. It’s a chance to validate
