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Akshay πŸš€
@akshay_pachaar
Let's build a real-time Voice RAG Agent, step-by-step:
Akshay πŸš€
@akshay_pachaar
Before we begin, here's a quick demo of what we're building

Tech stack:

- @Cartesia_AI for SOTA text-to-speech
- @AssemblyAI for speech-to-text
- @LlamaIndex to power RAG
- @livekit for orchestration

Let's go! πŸš€
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Akshay πŸš€
@akshay_pachaar
Here's an overview of what the app does:

1. Listens to real-time audio
2. Transcribes it via AssemblyAI
3. Uses your docs (via LlamaIndex) to craft an answer
4. Speaks that answer back with Cartesia

Now let's jump into code!
Akshay πŸš€
@akshay_pachaar
1️⃣ Set up environment and logging

This ensures we can load configurations from .env and keep track of everything in real time.

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Akshay πŸš€
@akshay_pachaar
2️⃣ Setup RAG

This is where your documents get indexed for search and retrieval, powered by LlamaIndex.

The agents answers would be grounded to this knowledge base.

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Akshay πŸš€
@akshay_pachaar
3️⃣ Setup Voice Activity Detection

We also want Voice Activity Detection (VAD) for smooth real-time experienceβ€”so we’ll β€œprewarm” the Silero VAD model.

This helps us detect when someone is actually speaking.

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Akshay πŸš€
@akshay_pachaar
4️⃣ The VoicePipelineAgent and Entry Point

This is where we bring it all together. The agent:

1. Listens to real-time audio.
2. Transcribes it using AssemblyAI.
3. Crafts an answer with your documents via LlamaIndex.
4. Speaks that answer back using Cartesia.

Check this out πŸ‘‡
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Akshay πŸš€
@akshay_pachaar
5️⃣ Run the app

Finally, we tie it all together. We run our agent with, specifying the prewarm function and main entrypoint.

That’s itβ€”your Real-Time Voice RAG Agent is ready to roll!
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Akshay πŸš€
@akshay_pachaar
The entire code is 100% open-source, you can find it here!

GitHub repo: github.com/patchy631/ai-e…
Akshay πŸš€
@akshay_pachaar
That's a wrap!

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