pipecat-ai/pipecat v0.0.88

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Added

• Added support for Nano Banana models to GoogleLLMService. For example, you can now use the gemini-2.5-flash-image model to generate images.

• Added HumeTTSService for text-to-speech synthesis using Hume AI's expressive voice models. Provides high-quality, emotionally expressive speech synthesis with support for various voice models. Includes example in examples/foundational/07ad-interruptible-hume.py. Use with uv pip install pipecat-ai[hume].

Changed

• Updated default GoogleLLMService model to gemini-2.5-flash.

Deprecated

• PlayHT is shutting down their API on December 31st, 2025. As a result, PlayHTTTSService and PlayHTHttpTTSService are deprecated and will be removed in a future version.

Fixed

• Fixed an issue with AWSNovaSonicLLMService where the client wouldn't connect due to a breaking change in the AWS dependency chain.

• PermissionError is now caught if NLTK's punkt_tab can't be downloaded.

• Fixed an issue that would cause wrong user/assistant context ordering when using interruption strategies.

• Fixed RTVI incoming message handling, broken in 0.0.87.