From: pipecat-ai <github.com/pipecat-ai>Newsgroups: alt.freeweights.toolsSubject:

Pipecat

Release: v1.16.0 (2026-11-12)Commit: 7cf75afLicense: BSD-2-Clause

Open Source framework for voice agents, multimodal apps, and realtime AI. Maintained by Daily and the community.

speechv1.16.0releasePipecatPythonBSD-2-Clause

FactsLicenseBSD-2-ClauseLanguagePythonKindspeechRelease2026-11-12PlatformsLinux, macOS, WindowsLinks to the projectpermissive

$ uv tool install "pipecat-ai[cli]"

Overview Install Use with Freeweights License Provenance

Overview

Framework for real-time voice and multimodal agents.

Kind: speech
License: BSD-2-Clause
Language: Python
Platforms: Linux, macOS, Windows
Latest release: v1.16.0 (2026-11-12)
Repository: pipecat-ai/pipecat

Topicsaichatbot-frameworkchatbotsreal-timevoicevoice-assistant

Freeweights links to the project and does not host tool binaries.

Install

$ uv tool install "pipecat-ai[cli]"

$ uv tool install "pipecat-ai[cli]"

Checked against the project's README on 2026-11-15. The project's own instructions win when they differ: install docs

Freeweights links to the project and does not host tool binaries.

Use with Freeweights

Run a catalog model

Download the weights from Freeweights first (HF_ENDPOINT or fw.py), then point the tool at the folder.

Catalog models it can run (315)

Audio8-TTS-Preview-0.6b Audio8-TTS-Realistic-Air BUD-E-Whisper BUD-E-Whisper_V1.1 chatterbox-4bit chatterbox-8bit chatterbox-fp16 chatterbox-GGUF chatterbox-multilingual-v3 chatterbox-ONNX chatterbox-turbo chatterbox-turbo-4bit chatterbox-turbo-8bit chatterbox-turbo-fp16 chatterbox-turbo-GGUF CosyVoice2-0.5B csm-1b csm-1b-8bit Dia-1.6B Dia-1.6B distil-large-v2 distil-large-v3 distil-large-v3.5 distil-large-v3.5-ct2 distil-large-v3.5-ONNX distil-medium.en distil-medium.en_timestamped distil-small.en distil-small.en distil-small.en_timestamped distil-whisper-large-v3_openvino_int8 Fun-CosyVoice3-0.5B-2512 granite-4.0-1b-speech-ONNX granite-speech-3.2-8b granite-speech-3.3-2b granite-speech-3.3-8b granite-speech-4.1-2b-plus granite-speech-5.0-2b granite-speech-5.0-2b-ONNX hubert-xlarge-ls960-ft kb-whisper-base kb-whisper-base-ONNX kb-whisper-large kb-whisper-large-ONNX kb-whisper-medium kb-whisper-medium-ONNX kb-whisper-small kb-whisper-small-ONNX kb-whisper-tiny kb-whisper-tiny-ONNX kitten-tts-micro-0.8 kitten-tts-mini-0.8 kitten-tts-nano-0.1 kitten-tts-nano-0.1-ONNX kitten-tts-nano-0.8-fp32 kotoba-whisper-bilingual-v1.0 kotoba-whisper-bilingual-v1.0-ONNX kotoba-whisper-v2.2 kotoba-whisper-v2.2-ONNX MiMo-V2.5-ASR

and 255 more.

License

License: BSD-2-Clause
Class: Permissive

Read the license

Freeweights links to the project and does not host tool binaries.

Provenance

From: pipecat-ai <github.com/pipecat-ai>Newsgroups: alt.freeweights.toolsSubject: PipecatRelease: v1.16.0 (2026-11-12)Commit: 7cf75afLicense: BSD-2-Clause

Repository: pipecat-ai/pipecat
Pinned release: v1.16.0, 2026-11-12
Release commit: 7cf75afc37f321ecce1822901351bc5fdc372e0b
Default branch: main 1bc2e37b15566cd34bb6941a335ce09c3bbbab8c
Fetched: 2026-11-15
Takedowns: None.

Freeweights links to the project and does not host tool binaries.

Get it

Install Project repository

Works with

315 catalog models. See the list