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# 
vocode
### **Build voice-based LLM apps in minutes**
Vocode is an open source library that makes it easy to build voice-based LLM apps. Using Vocode, you can build real-time streaming conversations with LLMs and deploy them to phone calls, Zoom meetings, and more. You can also build personal assistants or apps like voice-based chess. Vocode provides easy abstractions and integrations so that everything you need is in a single library.
# ⭐️ Features
- 🗣 Spin up a conversation with your system audio in minutes
- ➡️ 📞 Set up a phone number that responds with a LLM-based agent
- 📞 ➡️ Send out phone calls from your phone number managed by an LLM-based agent
- Out of the box integrations with:
- Transcription services, including:
- [Deepgram](https://deepgram.com/)
- [AssemblyAI](https://www.assemblyai.com/)
- [Google Cloud](https://cloud.google.com/speech-to-text)
- [Whisper](https://openai.com/blog/introducing-chatgpt-and-whisper-apis)
- LLMs, including:
- [ChatGPT](https://openai.com/blog/chatgpt)
- [GPT-4](https://platform.openai.com/docs/models/gpt-4)
- Synthesis services, including:
- [Microsoft Azure](https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/products/cognitive-services/text-to-speech/)
- [Google Cloud](https://cloud.google.com/text-to-speech)
- [Eleven Labs](https://elevenlabs.io/)
Check out our React SDK [here](https://github.com/vocodedev/vocode-react-sdk)!
# ☁️ Quickstart (Hosted)
First, get a *free* API key from our [dashboard](https://app.vocode.dev).
```bash
pip install 'vocode[io]'
```
```python
import asyncio
import signal
import vocode
from vocode.streaming.hosted_streaming_conversation import HostedStreamingConversation
from vocode.streaming.streaming_conversation import StreamingConversation
from vocode.helpers import create_microphone_input_and_speaker_output
from vocode.streaming.models.transcriber import (
DeepgramTranscriberConfig,
PunctuationEndpointingConfig,
)
from vocode.streaming.models.agent import ChatGPTAgentConfig
from vocode.streaming.models.message import BaseMessage
from vocode.streaming.models.synthesizer import AzureSynthesizerConfig
vocode.api_key = ""
if __name__ == "__main__":
microphone_input, speaker_output = create_microphone_input_and_speaker_output(
streaming=True, use_default_devices=False
)
conversation = HostedStreamingConversation(
input_device=microphone_input,
output_device=speaker_output,
transcriber_config=DeepgramTranscriberConfig.from_input_device(
microphone_input,
endpointing_config=PunctuationEndpointingConfig(),
),
agent_config=ChatGPTAgentConfig(
initial_message=BaseMessage(text="Hello!"),
prompt_preamble="Have a pleasant conversation about life",
),
synthesizer_config=AzureSynthesizerConfig.from_output_device(speaker_output),
)
signal.signal(signal.SIGINT, lambda _0, _1: conversation.deactivate())
asyncio.run(conversation.start())
```
# 🚀 Quickstart (Self-hosted)
```bash
pip install 'vocode[io]'
```
```python
import asyncio
import signal
import vocode
from vocode.streaming.streaming_conversation import StreamingConversation
from vocode.helpers import create_microphone_input_and_speaker_output
from vocode.streaming.models.transcriber import (
DeepgramTranscriberConfig,
PunctuationEndpointingConfig,
)
from vocode.streaming.models.agent import ChatGPTAgentConfig
from vocode.streaming.models.message import BaseMessage
from vocode.streaming.models.synthesizer import AzureSynthesizerConfig
# these can also be set as environment variables
vocode.setenv(
OPENAI_API_KEY="",
DEEPGRAM_API_KEY="",
AZURE_SPEECH_KEY="",
AZURE_SPEECH_REGION="",
)
async def main():
microphone_input, speaker_output = create_microphone_input_and_speaker_output(
streaming=True, use_default_devices=False
)
conversation = StreamingConversation(
output_device=speaker_output,
transcriber_config=DeepgramTranscriberConfig.from_input_device(
microphone_input, endpointing_config=PunctuationEndpointingConfig()
),
agent_config=ChatGPTAgentConfig(
initial_message=BaseMessage(text="Hello!"),
prompt_preamble="Have a pleasant conversation about life",
),
synthesizer_config=AzureSynthesizerConfig.from_output_device(speaker_output),
)
await conversation.start()
print("Conversation started, press Ctrl+C to end")
signal.signal(signal.SIGINT, lambda _0, _1: conversation.terminate())
while conversation.is_active():
chunk = microphone_input.get_audio()
if chunk:
conversation.receive_audio(chunk)
await asyncio.sleep(0)
if __name__ == "__main__":
asyncio.run(main())
```
# 📞 Phone call quickstarts
- [Inbound calls - Hosted](https://docs.vocode.dev/telephony#inbound-calls)
- [Outbound calls - Hosted](https://docs.vocode.dev/telephony#outbound-calls)
- [Telephony Server - Self-hosted](https://github.com/vocodedev/vocode-python/blob/main/examples/telephony_app.py)
# 🌱 Documentation
[docs.vocode.dev](https://docs.vocode.dev/)