pipecat-ai/pipecat v0.0.87 on GitHub

Added WebsocketSTTService base class for websocket-based STT services. Combines STT functionality with websocket connectivity, providing automatic error handling and reconnection capabilities with exponential backoff.
Added DeepgramFluxSTTService for real-time speech recognition using Deepgram's Flux WebSocket API. Flux understands conversational flow and automatically handles turn-taking.
Added RTVI messages for user/bot audio levels and system logs.
Include OpenAI-based LLM services cached tokens to MetricsFrame.

Updated the default model for AnthropicLLMService to claude-sonnet-4-5-20250929.

DailyTransportMessageFrame and DailyTransportMessageUrgentFrame are deprecated, use DailyOutputTransportMessageFrame and DailyOutputTransportMessageUrgentFrame respectively instead.
LiveKitTransportMessageFrame and LiveKitTransportMessageUrgentFrame are deprecated, use LiveKitOutputTransportMessageFrame and LiveKitOutputTransportMessageUrgentFrame respectively instead.
TransportMessageFrame and TransportMessageUrgentFrame are deprecated, use OutputTransportMessageFrame and OutputTransportMessageUrgentFrame respectively instead.
InputTransportMessageUrgentFrame is deprecated, use InputTransportMessageFrame instead.
DailyUpdateRemoteParticipantsFrame is deprecated and will be removed in a future version. Instead, create your own custom frame and handle it in the @transport.output().event_handler("on_after_push_frame") event handler or a custom processor.

Fixed

Fixed an issue in AWSBedrockLLMService where timeout exceptions weren't being detected.
Fixed a PipelineTask issue that could prevent the application to exit if task.cancel() was called when the task was already finished.
Fixed an issue where local SmartTurn was not being ran in a separate thread.