Deepgram acquires Daily, maker of open-source Pipecat, to deepen its voice AI stack

The speech AI company is buying the team behind one of the most popular open-source voice agent frameworks and says Pipecat will stay open source Deepgram is buying one of the companies it already works with most closely. The voice AI firm said on Thursday that it is acquiring Daily, the company that builds and maintains Pipecat, one of the most widely used open-source frameworks for voice AI. Neither side disclosed what Deepgram is paying. Both said Pipecat will remain open source, which is the detail the developer community will care about most. What Deepgram is actually buying Picture a voice agent as a relay team. One runner turns speech into text, another figures out a reply, a third turns that reply back into speech, and someone has to handle the baton passes in real time. Pipecat handles those handoffs. It is a framework that lets developers connect speech recognition, language models and voice synthesis into a single conversational agent without building the plumbing from scratch. Daily also brings its WebRTC transport layer. WebRTC is the technology that moves live audio and video between devices with minimal delay, and Pipecat plugs into Daily’s version of it. The two com...