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We’re on a journey to advance and democratize artificial intelligence through open source and open science.
This stack is powered by speech-to-speech, our cascaded VAD → STT → LLM → TTS pipeline that exposes a Realtime API-compatible /v1/realtime WebSocket. Once you launch the backend, point the robot at it from the UI.
Cascades are the most flexible option in the open-source landscape today, and with the right pieces they're also the fastest. We'll recommend the components we like best, but the whole point of a cascade is that you can swap them. New models drop every week.