Library / SDK
Agents & Orchestration
LiveKit Agents
1Framework 2for 3realtime 4voice 5AI 6agents
the six Ws · specification
W1
Who
Maintained by LiveKit.
W2
What
A framework for realtime voice and video AI agents.
W3
Where
A Python and Node framework on the LiveKit stack.
W4
When
When building low-latency spoken agent experiences.
W5
Why
Handles streaming audio, turn-taking, and telephony end-to-end.
W6
With
A LiveKit server plus speech and LLM providers.
W7
Watch
Company-maintained; open-source (Apache-2.0). Self-hostable on your LiveKit server or LiveKit Cloud; media and provider calls follow your config.