Engineering
Integrating Pipecat with OpenAI, ElevenLabs, and Deepgram for Multimodal Conversations
The shift from turn-based LLM interactions to real-time, multimodal conversational agents represents a significant leap in complexity for the modern software engineering stack. To achieve "human-like" latency (sub-800ms voice-to-voice), a simple sequence of API calls is insufficient. Engineers must move toward a streaming, frame-based pipeline architecture that can