Voice AI company Deepgram is buying Daily, the maker of Pipecat, an open-source framework for building voice agents. Pipecat will stay open source and free under its existing BSD V2 licence. The companies are also setting up an independent Pipecat Foundation.

Deepgram announced the deal on Thursday in a blog post , on the day of Deepgram Speak, its first conference, in San Francisco. Daily co-founder Kwindla Hultman Kramer set out the details in a post of his own . Neither company disclosed the price of the Deepgram Daily acquisition, Ivan Mehta reported for TechCrunch .

“Keeping Pipecat open was fundamental to our decision to join Deepgram,” Kramer said in the announcement.

What Deepgram is buying

Pipecat links the parts of a voice agent: speech-to-text, a large language model and text-to-speech. It also handles the voice and video streams between them while keeping delays low.…