@kuralle-agents/realtime-audio

⏸️ Paused for now. Kuralle is hardening text as the primary primitive. The realtime model code here is kept intact, but the realtime VoiceDriver is off the framework's headline API (it lives behind @kuralle-agents/core/runtime) and is not part of the active stability program. For voice today, prefer cascaded voice over text via @kuralle-agents/livekit-plugin (STT → Kuralle text runtime → TTS). Provider-native speech-to-speech will resume later.

Provider-native realtime audio for Kuralle — speech-to-speech voice agents powered by Gemini Live, OpenAI Realtime, or xAI Grok Realtime, with Kuralle keeping tool, flow, and handoff authority.

Install

npm install @kuralle-agents/realtime-audio

Peer dependencies:

npm install @kuralle-agents/core ai zod

What it does

Unlike the cascaded path in @kuralle-agents/livekit-plugin (STT → LLM → TTS), provider-native realtime sends raw audio directly to the model and receives audio back in a single connection — lower latency, no transcript round-trip.

Whole-answer content gates are advisory on native realtime audio. The provider speaks audio as it generates it, before any Kuralle gate runs, so a blocking gate cannot un-speak audio already played — it emits a safety-* event and speaks a correction utterance (post-hoc). The reliable controls on native realtime are input-side gating (pre-turn policies) and tool authority (tools return data, not conversational text). On the cascaded substrate, by contrast, Kuralle controls the emission boundary and the gate is preventive.

• VoiceEngine — call acceptor. Accepts incoming audio connections and creates per-call VoiceCallSession workers that bridge a transport to the chosen provider.
• VoiceCallSession / RealtimeCallWorker — per-call lifecycle: connects to the provider, routes tool calls through Kuralle runtime, manages session state.
• GeminiLiveSession — thin wrapper around @google/genai live.connect(); manages the WebSocket to Gemini, PCM audio encoding, tool dispatch, and session resumption.
• OpenAIRealtimeClient — OpenAI Realtime API client.
• CloudflareRealtimeAdapter — plugs any RealtimeAudioClient into Kuralle runtime authority inside a Cloudflare Durable Object.
• CloudflareGeminiLiveClient, CloudflareOpenAIRealtimeClient, CloudflareXAIGrokRealtimeClient — Cloudflare Workers variants.
• createGeminiClientFactory / createOpenAIClientFactory — provider client factories.
• voiceAgentToRuntimeAgent — converts a VoiceAgentConfig to a standard Kuralle agent config.

Usage

import { VoiceEngine, createGeminiClientFactory } from '@kuralle-agents/realtime-audio';

const engine = new VoiceEngine({
  agents: [
    {
      id: 'support',
      name: 'Support Agent',
      instructions: 'You are a support agent.',
      voice: 'Charon',
      tools: { /* Kuralle tool definitions */ },
    },
  ],
  defaultAgentId: 'support',
  modelClientFactory: createGeminiClientFactory({
    apiKey: process.env.GOOGLE_API_KEY!,
    model: 'gemini-2.5-flash-preview-native-audio',
  }),
});

// Accept a call from any transport (WebSocket, LiveKit, etc.)
const session = await engine.acceptCall({
  callId: crypto.randomUUID(),
  transport: myTransportSession, // implements TransportSession
});

await session.start();

Related

• @kuralle-agents/livekit-plugin — cascaded STT → LLM → TTS voice path via LiveKit
• @kuralle-agents/livekit-plugin-transport-ws — WebSocket transport for audio connections
• @kuralle-agents/core — agents, flows, runtime