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    ---
    title: apogee-ai-voice
    description: STT, TTS, VAD, barge-in and hot-word detection for voice agents.
    ---

    # apogee-ai-voice

    > STT, TTS, VAD, barge-in and hot-word detection for voice agents.

    ## What is in this package

    | Capability | Adapters |

| --- | --- | | STT | Deepgram, Whisper, OpenAI Realtime | | TTS | ElevenLabs, OpenAI TTS, Google Cloud TTS | | VAD / barge-in | Silero VAD, custom interrupt handler | | Hot-word | Picovoice Porcupine |

    ## Install

    ```bash
    pip install apogee-ai-voice
    ```

    ## Where it fits

    This package is part of the [Apogee Framework](/framework/) ecosystem. It can be used:

    - **Standalone** — install and use directly via `pip` (or `npm` for `@apogee/ai-ui-react`).
    - **As a plugin** — generated projects detect it and register matching CLI subcommands automatically.

    See the [framework's modules overview](/framework/modules/overview/) for how all 28 packages fit together.

    ## Read next

    - [Installation](getting-started/installation.md)
    - [Quickstart](getting-started/quickstart.md)
    - [Reference](reference/index.md)