# vocodedev/vocode-core

🤖 Build voice-based LLM agents. Modular + open source.

Repository: https://github.com/vocodedev/vocode-core
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/vocode-core
Homepage: https://vocode.dev
Language: Python
License: MIT
License Family: permissive
Last push: 2024-11-15T22:16:58+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 21/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 0, release rhythm 8, longevity 91
- inputs: {"age_days": 1286, "days_push": 656, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: none
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 3785, forks 655 (observed 2026-08-28T04:08:18.574976+00:00)

## What it is
Vocode is an open-source Python library for building real-time, voice-based LLM applications and agents. It orchestrates streaming transcription, LLM responses, and speech synthesis, and deploys agents to phone calls, Zoom meetings, and system audio.

## Use cases
- build a voice assistant that talks to an LLM in real time
- create a phone number that answers calls with an AI agent
- make outbound AI phone calls
- dial an LLM agent into a Zoom meeting
- build a personal voice assistant
- use phone calls as a tool in a Langchain agent

## When to choose
- you want a modular Python library to build real-time voice conversations with LLMs
- you need telephony integration (inbound/outbound calls) for AI agents
- you want pluggable transcription, LLM, and TTS providers in one library

## When to avoid
- you need a fully managed enterprise voice API with SLAs rather than a self-assembled stack
- you need non-voice chatbot interfaces
- you require actively maintained software - the repo has not been updated since late 2024

## Facets
- artifact type: library
- maturity: maintenance
- function: speech-recognition, tts, llm-inference, agent-framework, audio-processing, chatbot
- domain: artificial-intelligence, large-language-models, speech-processing
- platform: python, cross-platform
- tags: voice-agents, telephony, real-time-streaming, phone-calls, zoom, langchain, ai-agents, natural-language-processing, web-server

## Member repositories
- vocodedev/vocode-core (main) score 21

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:08:18.574976+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 2026-08-29T18:27:41.725301+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/vocodedev/vocode-core (fetched 2026-08-28T04:08:18.574976+00:00, sha 5e06c5d6e4ce)
  - homepage: https://vocode.dev (fetched 2026-08-29T09:22:17.910769+00:00, sha eda06697b86a)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.