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  "_kind": "Framework",
  "_file": "domain/frameworks/realtime-voice-frameworks.yaml",
  "_cluster": "domain",
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    "displayName": "Pipecat",
    "homepageUrl": "https://github.com/pipecat-ai/pipecat",
    "belongsToLanguageId": "language:python",
    "category": "realtime-voice",
    "license": "BSD-2-Clause",
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    "transports": [
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      "sip"
    ],
    "description": "BSD-licensed, self-hostable Python realtime voice pipeline framework. Pluggable\nSTT/TTS/LLM; tool calls default synchronous, cancel_on_interruption=False makes\nthem async/non-blocking with streaming is_final=False updates; the\nFunctionCallParams.result_callback is a per-call interception seam; tool calls\ninstrumented as discrete OpenTelemetry spans (observation-only). Strong\nalternative to LiveKit Agents. See docs/research/realtime-voice-agent-stack.md.\n"
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