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Deepgram acquires Pipecat-maker Daily to bolster its voice AI infrastructure
With Pipecat, Deepgram will likely gain a deeper understanding of real-time voice and video infrastructure.
The voice AI sector is hot, and top players are trying to consolidate their position as more business models come to the fore through partnerships and acquisitions. Deepgram is the latest to make such moves: The company said on Thursday that it is acquiring Daily, the maker and maintainer of one of the most popular open source voice AI infrastructures, Pipecat.
The companies didn’t disclose the deal amount but said that they will keep Pipecat open source.
For the uninitiated, Pipecat is a framework that manages voice and video streams along with other pieces in the pipeline, like speech-to-text (STT), large language models (LLMs), and text-to-speech (TTS) models while reducing latency. Its maker, Daily, provides hosted infrastructure for voice and video calls of any kind.
With Pipecat, Deepgram will likely gain a deeper understanding of real-time voice and video infrastructure.
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