Build Your First Voice AI Agent in 20 Minutes with LiveKit (Open Source)

Voice AI platforms like Vapi, Synthflow, and Bland can only get you so far. You're paying premium rates, you'll hit walls when you try to heavily customize your agent, your tools are slow, and you're working within someone else's infrastructure. It's a big black box. LiveKit is different. It's an open-source Python framework where you write actual code for your voice agents. You get full control over your conversation logic, direct integration with your tools and MCP servers, and the ability to self-host or deploy to LiveKit Cloud. It's fast, reliable, easy to build with, and extremely scalable. In this video, I'll walk you through building your first voice AI agent with LiveKit in under 20 minutes. We'll set up the agent locally, test it in the terminal, then deploy it to LiveKit Cloud. I'll even cover building custom tools and connecting MCP servers to your LiveKit agents!