Deepgram is acquiring Daily, the company behind the open-source voice AI framework Pipecat. The companies say Pipecat will remain open-source, preserving developers' ability to connect different models.
Deepgram has announced the acquisition of Daily without disclosing the deal amount. Daily co-founder Kwindla Kramer said Deepgram’s commitment to keeping Pipecat open-source and vendor-neutral helped persuade him to agree to the deal.
Pipecat manages voice and video streams alongside speech-to-text, language models and text-to-speech, while reducing latency. Daily provides hosted infrastructure for voice and video calls, bringing real-time communications technology into Deepgram.
Deepgram is also launching the Real-Time Context Standard, an open protocol developed with the Pipecat team. It defines contextual signals such as whispering, instructions for how a language model should use them, and guidance for how responses should sound. For companies building voice agents, Deepgram says the combined technology will let developers connect different models rather than rely solely on its own.
The acquisition brings model orchestration and real-time communications infrastructure into Deepgram, extending its role in the voice AI stack.
Keeping Pipecat open-source and vendor-neutral would preserve model choice for businesses building on the framework.
The new context protocol gives developers a way to pass vocal cues through an agent’s components, supporting responses shaped by more than transcribed words.
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