# TEN-framework/ten-framework

Open-source framework for conversational voice AI agents

Repository: https://github.com/TEN-framework/ten-framework
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/ten-framework
Homepage: https://agent.theten.ai/
Language: Python
License: NOASSERTION
License Family: other
Topics: ai, multi-modal, real-time, video, voice
Last push: 2026-08-26T12:01:59+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 85/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:39:23.370411+00:00)
- activity 99, release rhythm 83, longevity 57
- inputs: {"age_days": 805, "days_push": 7, "days_rel": 33, "gap_med": 2.0, "n_releases_24m": 117}
- flags: no_license
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 11082, forks 1354 (observed 2026-08-28T04:10:46.043551+00:00)

## What it is
TEN is an open-source framework for building real-time multimodal conversational AI agents, with a focus on low-latency voice assistants. It includes an ecosystem of components such as agent examples, VAD, turn detection, and a developer portal.

## Use cases
- build a real-time voice assistant with low latency
- create conversational AI agents that handle audio and video
- add voice chat to an application with LLMs
- self-host a multimodal AI agent with Docker
- implement turn detection and VAD in a voice pipeline

## When to choose
- you need a real-time, low-latency voice or multimodal agent framework
- you want ready-made agent examples to start from
- you plan to self-host conversational AI agents

## When to avoid
- you only need simple text chatbots without real-time audio
- you want a fully managed hosted service rather than a self-hosted framework
- your license requirements cannot accommodate its non-standard license

## Facets
- artifact type: framework
- maturity: active
- function: agent-framework, speech-recognition, audio-processing, video-processing, llm-inference, chatbot
- domain: artificial-intelligence, speech-processing, large-language-models
- platform: python, self-hosted, cross-platform
- tags: voice-ai, conversational-agents, real-time-multimodal, vad, turn-detection, voice-assistant, ai-agents, real-time, docker

## Member repositories
- TEN-framework/ten-framework (main) score 85

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:10:46.043551+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-29T17:16:49.080566+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/TEN-framework/ten-framework (fetched 2026-08-28T04:10:46.043551+00:00, sha afd4c3e67185)
  - homepage: https://agent.theten.ai/ (fetched 2026-08-29T08:15:30.851379+00:00, sha 63ea03d99da5)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.