Real-time voice AI agents — speech-in/speech-out conversational systems with Whisper, ElevenLabs, OpenAI Realtime API, and Anthropic voice tools.
Voice Agents tools are AI-powered software designed to help developers and teams tackle voice agents-related tasks more efficiently. These tools are typically published as open-source projects on GitHub and can be integrated into existing workflows via MCP (Model Context Protocol), Claude Skills, or standalone agent frameworks. On Agent Skills Hub, we index 30 quality-scored voice agents tools across languages including TypeScript, Rust, JavaScript.
In 2026, the AI agent ecosystem is maturing rapidly. Voice Agents tools can significantly boost development efficiency by automating repetitive tasks, reducing human error, and providing intelligent suggestions. The top 3 tools — openlive, cli, qwen-audio-agent — have earned an average of 4,164 GitHub stars, reflecting strong community validation. 26 of the listed tools come with clear open-source licenses, ensuring freedom to use and modify.
When choosing a voice agents tool, consider these factors: 1) Community activity — GitHub stars and recent commit frequency indicate reliability; 2) Integration method — check if it supports MCP, Claude, or your preferred agent framework; 3) Language compatibility — the most common language in this list is TypeScript; 4) Quality score — Agent Skills Hub's composite score evaluates code quality, documentation completeness, and maintenance activity. Our recommendation: start with openlive — it ranks highest in both star count and quality score.
Opensource, on-device voice + vision layer for AI agents. Bring any model or coding agent; the whole speech loop (VAD, STT, TTS, barge-in) runs locally. An open alternative to ElevenLabs Agents, Gemini Live, and OpenAI Realtime.
Command Line Interface to interact with ElevenLabs voice agents
A realtime voice runtime that keeps Agents talking, working, and present. Real-time Voice Runtime for AI Agents
Multi-modal voice agent for your AI agents. Talk with Claude Code, Codex, and others by voice: answer their prompts, give instructions, ask what they did. Or just nod.
A 100% private AI voice assistant that lives on your computer (works offline). Talk naturally as if Jarvis is a third person in the room, and get conversational responses. It remembers everything, knows location and time, can check the web, control Chrome, track nutrition, and more with support for unlimited MCPs / tools without context rot.
JARVIS — a voice assistant for Claude Code. Talk to your Mac and he brainstorms a project with you, builds it, and tells you out loud when a Claude Code session needs you. macOS, on your Claude subscription, no API key.
Rust Agent Development Kit (ADK-Rust): Build AI agents in Rust with modular components for models, tools, memory, realtime voice, and more. ADK-Rust is a flexible framework for developing AI agents with simplicity and power. Model-agnostic, deployment-agnostic, optimized for frontier AI models. Includes support for real-time voice agents.
Infrastructure for the next generation of voice agents, designed to provide universal memory. It is divided into a left brain and a right brain, storing information and emotions respectively, while a fully streaming architecture eliminates latency at the fundamental level.
💖🧸 Self hosted, you-owned Grok Companion, a container of souls of waifu, cyber livings to bring them into our worlds, wishing to achieve Neuro-sama's altitude. Capable of realtime voice chat, Minecraft, Factorio playing. Web / macOS / Windows supported.
Voice-driven multi-agent assistant — Realtime API + CLI runners + multi-channel orchestration.
Reusable AI coding agent skills for building voice AI with LiveKit
```bash
npx skills add livekit/agent-skills
```Nexus | Take over your Android voice assistant with a custom AI agent — connect any LLM (Claude, GPT, Gemini), use MCP tools, Shell/SSH, and Root/Shizuku automation
Open-source voice-AI SDK. The Vapi/Retell alternative for builders who want to own the stack. Give your AI agent a phone number in 4 lines — Python and TypeScript, MIT licensed, Twilio, Telnyx, and Plivo.
World's first open-source, agentic video production system. 12 production pipelines, 100+ tools, 700+ agent skill and production-knowledge files. Turn your AI coding assistant into a full video production studio.
Voice-powered AI assistant platform — connect any LLM, any TTS, with a live web canvas, music generation, and agent orchestration using openclaw. Install: npx openvoiceui setup
A lightweight, powerful framework for multi-agent workflows and voice agents
AI-native video production toolkit for Claude Code
Like the macOS say command, but with a modern voice.
```bash
brew install steipete/tap/sag # auto-taps steipete/tap
```Unreal Engine plugin for LLM/GenAI models & MCP UE5 server. OpenAI GPT-5, Deepseek R1, Claude Opus/Sonnet, Gemini 3, Grok 4, Alibaba Qwen, Kimi, ElevenLabs TTS, Inworld, OpenRouter, Groq, GLM, Ollama, Local, Meshy, Tripo, Hunyuan3D, Rodin, fal, Dashscope, Seedream. NPC AI, agentic, chat, 3D gen, TTS, multimodal, image gen. UnrealMCP/UnrealClaude
24 cross-platform agent skills for Claude Code, Cursor, Codex & Gemini CLI — databases, messaging, research, TTS, DevOps, and Google Workspace
AI video generation SDK — JSX for videos. One API for Kling, Flux, ElevenLabs, Veed. Built on Vercel AI SDK.
A complete local production workflow for clean narration, structured learning content, and podcast-ready audio
A powerful Rust library and CLI tool to unify and orchestrate multiple LLM, Agent and voice backends (OpenAI, Claude, Gemini, Ollama, ElevenLabs...) with a single, extensible API. Build, chain, evaluate, and serve complex multi-step AI workflows — including speech-to-text, text-to-speech, completions, vision, and reasoning.
Record the talking head, Claude Code does the rest: the cut, the visuals, the voice, the sound effects, the thumbnail, and the YouTube upload. Every screen moment is built as Remotion TSX code, never screen-recorded.
Business operating system for Claude Code — 57 skills, 21 agents, smart daemon. Unified inbox (WhatsApp/Email/Slack/Telegram), autonomous PR merge, full-AWS monitoring, revenue (Stripe+RevenueCat), e-commerce (Shopify), marketing (Klaviyo/Meta/GA4), voice (Bland/ElevenLabs), APM (Datadog/NewRelic/OTEL), YOLO mode.
Open-source desktop app for content creation, with an agent runtime and standalone CLI.
A faceless YouTube-Shorts factory driven by Claude Code: pure-TSX Remotion visuals, ElevenLabs voice with word-exact captions, library-first sound design. 12 complete example shorts included.
| Tool | Stars | Language | License | Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| openlive | ★ 265 | TypeScript | MIT | 67 |
| cli | ★ 85 | Rust | MIT | 56 |
| qwen-audio-agent | ★ 2.4k | JavaScript | Apache-2.0 | 77 |
| tapq | ★ 106 | Swift | Apache-2.0 | 56 |
| jarvis | ★ 1.6k | Python | — | 67 |
| jarvis | ★ 736 | Python | — | 70 |
| bolna | ★ 754 | Python | MIT | 66 |
| adk-rust | ★ 647 | Rust | — | 68 |
| VoiceMem | ★ 724 | Python | Apache-2.0 | 67 |
| airi | ★ 49.0k | TypeScript | MIT | 75 |
| OpenYabby | ★ 125 | JavaScript | MIT | 47 |
| agent-skills | ★ 62 | Python | MIT | 62 |
| voicegateway | ★ 50 | Python | MIT | 54 |
| com.niki914.nexus.agentic | ★ 155 | — | — | 61 |
| Patter | ★ 1.0k | Python | MIT | 67 |
| OpenMontage | ★ 56.3k | Python | AGPL-3.0 | 83 |
| OpenVoiceUI | ★ 73 | HTML | MIT | 61 |
| openai-agents-js | ★ 3.8k | TypeScript | MIT | 72 |
| claude-code-video-toolkit | ★ 2.1k | Python | MIT | 72 |
| elevenlabs-mcp | ★ 1.5k | Python | MIT | 80 |
| sag | ★ 580 | Go | MIT | 75 |
| UnrealGenAISupport | ★ 632 | C++ | MIT | 58 |
| ai-skills | ★ 422 | Python | Apache-2.0 | 71 |
| sdk | ★ 337 | TypeScript | Apache-2.0 | 67 |
| LocalText2Voice | ★ 310 | Python | MIT | 64 |
| llm | ★ 359 | Rust | MIT | 54 |
| claude-youtube-editor | ★ 274 | TypeScript | MIT | 66 |
| claude-ops | ★ 189 | Shell | MIT | 63 |
| ralphy | ★ 132 | TypeScript | Apache-2.0 | 70 |
| claude-faceless-shorts-creator | ★ 134 | TypeScript | MIT | 63 |
The top voice agents tools in 2026 are openlive, cli, qwen-audio-agent. Agent Skills Hub ranks 30 options by GitHub stars, quality score (6 dimensions including completeness, examples, and agent readiness), and recent activity. The list is rebuilt every 8 hours from live GitHub data.
openlive (265 stars) is the most adopted choice for general voice agents workflows, written in TypeScript. cli (85 stars) is a strong alternative and uses Rust instead. Pick by your existing stack: match the language and runtime your team already uses to minimize integration cost. If unsure, start with openlive — it has the deepest community and the most examples online.
Avoid pre-built voice agents tools when (1) your use case requires deep customization that the tool's plugin system doesn't support, (2) you have strict compliance requirements that ban third-party dependencies, (3) the tool's maintenance is inactive (last commit >6 months ago), or (4) your data volume is small enough that a 50-line custom script is cheaper than learning the tool. For most production workflows above 100 requests/day, the time savings from a maintained tool outweigh the customization loss.
Voice Agents focuses specifically on real-time voice ai agents — speech-in/speech-out conversational systems with whisper, elevenlabs, openai realtime api, and anthropic voice tools. Text-to-Speech & Voice is a related but distinct category — see https://agentskillshub.top/best/text-to-speech/ for those tools. The two often appear in the same agent pipeline but solve different problems: choose voice agents when your primary goal is the specific task, and text-to-speech & voice when the workflow is broader.
For most teams, yes. openlive has 265 stars worth of community testing, handles edge cases you haven't thought of, and ships with documentation. Build your own only when (1) your requirements are deeply non-standard, (2) you have a security/compliance reason to avoid OSS dependencies, or (3) the maintenance burden is small enough (<200 lines of code) that you'll save time long-term. The break-even point is usually around 2-3 weeks of dev time saved.
Most voice agents tools listed are open source under permissive licenses (MIT, Apache 2.0). A handful offer paid managed/cloud versions on top of free self-hosted core. Always check the LICENSE file on each tool's GitHub repository before commercial use — some use AGPL or non-commercial restrictions that may not fit your deployment model.
Grades come from a rule-based scan built on the SlowMist agent-security taxonomy, covering 11 red-flag categories including credential harvesting, data exfiltration, and curl | sh installers. It is a first-layer scan, not a manual audit — we say so rather than overstate it.
The scale of the problem is documented independently: Liu et al. (2026), in a study of 31,132 agent skills, report that 26.1% contain security vulnerabilities. Our own full-catalog census is published as a citable open dataset.
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