T9-R5 in five minutes
LiveKit's pipeline page shows an AgentSession that takes speech-to-text, a language model, and text-to-speech.
Pipecat's overview calls Pipecat an open source Python framework that orchestrates services, transports, and audio.
Pipecat's pipeline page shows transport input, speech-to-text, a user context aggregator, the language model, text-to-speech, transport output, then an assistant aggregator.
That page says processors push frames along, and it lists InterruptionFrame as a system frame.
Reading either page is not a deployment you completed.
Both are orchestrators in their own docs. The model is still a box you configure. This lab does not install either framework.
Sources and go deeper
- LiveKit Agents, Pipeline types vendor last checked 2026-10
- Pipecat open source framework vendor last checked 2026-10
- Pipecat, Pipeline and frame processing vendor last checked 2026-10