chidiwilliams/buzz

Pipecat is a framework and software development kit for building real-time multimodal AI agents and speech-to-speech systems. It utilizes a frame-based data pipeline to route audio, video, and text through a modular sequence of processors, enabling the orchestration of low-latency conversational AI. The project is distinguished by its ability to coordinate complex multimodal services, including speech-to-text, language models, and text-to-speech, within a single pipeline. It features semantic voice activity detection for natural turn-taking, state-machine conversation flows for dialogue manag

Handy is a local speech-to-text automation tool designed to convert spoken audio into text and inject it directly into active desktop applications. By running machine learning models entirely on the host hardware, it provides a private, offline-first environment for dictation and command execution. The system functions as a background service that manages microphone input, transcription state, and text output, enabling hands-free typing across various software environments. The project distinguishes itself through a modular pipeline that integrates local language models for post-transcription

LiveKit is a comprehensive framework for building and orchestrating real-time, multimodal AI agents that interact with users through voice, video, and text. It provides a centralized, event-driven architecture to manage the entire lifecycle of automated participants, from initialization and session state management to graceful shutdown. By utilizing a selective forwarding unit, the platform efficiently routes media streams between participants and agents, ensuring low-latency communication and secure, token-based authentication for all connections. The platform distinguishes itself through it

Sherpa-ONNX is an ONNX-based speech processing toolkit that provides a local speech recognition engine, an on-device voice synthesis tool, and a speaker identification framework. It is designed as a cross-platform speech API that enables speech-to-text, text-to-speech, and speaker verification tasks to be executed locally on a device without requiring network access. The project is distinguished by its ability to perform zero-shot voice cloning and speaker diarization on-device. It supports a wide range of hardware accelerations, including GPU and various NPU architectures, and provides a Web