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dograh

Open source voice AI platform. Self-hosted alternative to Vapi and Retell. On Prem, BYOK across Speech to Speech or LLM/STT/TTS, with a visual workflow builder, MCP native and telephony support.

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What it is

Open source voice AI platform. Self-hosted alternative to Vapi and Retell. On Prem, BYOK across Speech to Speech or LLM/STT/TTS, with a visual workflow builder, MCP native and telephony support.

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This week on Hacker News

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What Hacker News says

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If you like Pipecat’s focus on speed, you might also try out our open source, which comes with all the batteries included (knowledge base, telephony/SIP, variables, BYOK any LLM STT TTS, Speech to Speech, etc ) And it's fully OSS- like n8n for voice AI, and you can use it with OpenClaw or Claude code - recently launched MCPs.Github- https://github.com/dograh-hq/dograh, Youtube -https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sxiSp4JXqws&list=PLDqzGuN7B1...
In How OpenAI delivers low-latency voice AI at scale
a6kme·Mar 31, 2026Submission

Show HN: Dograh – voice agents that pick Recordings over TTS using LLM

TL;DR: Dograh is an open-source platform to build voice AI agents with drag-and-drop workflows. New in v1.20: Gemini 3.1 live support, Pre-recorded audio support for lower latency and more natural responses. Fully self-hostable, no vendor lock-in. Hi HN, We’re the Dograh team (YC alumni). While building voice bots, we found that wiring WebRTC/ Telephony + STT + LLM + TTS took more time than the bots themselves. Teams are spending weeks on plumbing - handling call flows, extracting variables, dealing with telephony edge cases, and redeploying for small changes. Tools like Vapi/Retell are easy to start with but come with lock-in and platform fees. So we built Dograh: a 100% open-source platform that handles the full stack, with a visual workflow builder and self-hosting by default. Dograh v1.20 introduces two major additions: 1. Gemini 3.1
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Live support Run fully real-time voice agents using Gemini’s streaming APIs, without stitching together separate STT + LLM + TTS components. 2. Pre-recorded audio (hybrid voice) Upload real voice clips (greetings, confirmations, etc.), and the agent plays them instantly while using TTS only for dynamic responses. This reduces latency, improves naturalness, and cuts TTS costs. It also includes: - Plug-and-play LLM / STT / TTS (including self-hosted models) - Telephony integrations (Twilio, Vonage, Telnyx) along with Call Transfer - Post-call QA, transcripts, and variable extraction - Observability via Langfuse (OpenTelemetry traces + prompt playground) Try it now: If you have Docker, you can run the below command for a 2-minute setup (no API keys needed out of the box). https://gist.github.com/a6kme/072252bf885270787bbb8376687c67... [ sorry, HN wont let me post the entire command ] Looking Ahead: We’re expanding self-hosted model support: you can already bring any LLM (e.g. Llama, Qwen) or TTS (Kokoro, Voxtral) by configuring API endpoints. We are working on updates that will enable anyone to run everything on a single server - your AI models along with Dograh Orchestration. Looking forward to hearing thoughts of the community.
4 points · Open discussion

Show HN: We open sourced Vapi – UI included

We kept hitting the same wall building voice AI systems. Pipecat and LiveKit are great projects, genuinely. But getting it to production took us weeks of plumbing - wiring things together, handling barge-ins, setting up telephony, Knowledge base, tool calls, handling barge in etc. And every time we needed to tweak agent behavior, you were back in the code and redeploying. We just wanted to change a prompt and test it in 30 seconds. Thats why Vapi retell etc exist. So we wrote the entire code and open sourced it as a Visual drag-and-drop for voice agents ( same as vapi or n8n for voice). Built on a Pipecat fork and BSD-2, no strings attached. Tool calls, knowledge base, variable extraction, voicemail detection, call transfer to humans, multilingual support, post-call QA, background noise suppression, and a website widget are all included.
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You're not paying per-minute fees to a middleman wrapping the same APIs you'd call directly. You can set it up with a simple docker command. It comes pre-wired with Deepgram, Cartesia, OpenAI , Speechmatics Sarvam for STT, same for TTS, and OpenAI, Gemini, groq, Openrouter, Azure on the LLM side. Telephony works out of the box with Twilio, Vonage , CLoudonix and Asterisk for both inbound and outbound. There's a hosted version at app.dograh.com if self-hosting isn't your thing. Repo: github.com/dograh-hq/dograh Video walkthrough: https://youtu.be/sxiSp4JXqws We built this out of frustration, not a thesis. The tool is free to use and fully open source (and will always remain so), happy to answer questions about the data or how we built it.
8 points · Open discussion
Great writeup. The speaking vs listening framing is underrated. TTFT with Groq and colocation are both real wins that don't get talked about enough. For anyone wanting this production ready out of the box, Dograh is an OSS project built on the same principles and goes much beyond ( https://github.com/dograh-hq/dograh ). Groq, Flux(Deepgram), instant barge-in cancel, full streaming pipeline etc .but also telephony, echo handling, tool calls for external services, variable extraction, and domain dictionary baked in. All the parts needed in production are already solved.
In Show HN: I built a sub-500ms latency voice agent from scratch
a6kme·Dec 8, 2025Submission

Show HN: Dograh – an OSS Vapi alternative to quickly build and test voice agents

Hi HN, I have been building voice agents for sometime now. I was earlier automating parts of visa processing, and we needed real-time, multilingual voice calling. I assumed the hard work was just wiring LiveKit/Pipecat + STT/TTS + an LLM. It wasn’t. Even with solid OSS (Pipecat/LiveKit), we still had to do a lot of plumbing- variable extraction, tracing, testing etc and any workflow changes required constant redeploys. We eventually realized we’d spent more time building infrastructure than building the actual agents. Everything felt custom. We hit every possible pain with Pipecat and VAPI style systems. So we built Dograh - a fully open-source voice agent framework that includes all the boring, painful pieces by default. What’s different: - Pipecat-based engine, but forked - custom event model, and concurrency fixes - One-click start te
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mplate generated by an LLM Agent for a quick get start template for any use case - Drag-and-drop visual agent builder for quick iteration (the thing we wished existed earlier) - Variable extraction layer (name/order/date/etc.) baked into the LLM loop - Built in Telephony integration (Twilio/ Vonage/ Vobiz/ Cloudonix) - Multilingual support end-to-end - Select any LLM TTS STT (add their credits, if any) - AI-to-AI call testing: automatically stress-test an agent before shipping (still a work in progress- so patchy as of now) - Fully Open Source It's built and maintained by YC alumni / exit founders who got tired of rebuilding the same plumbing. Why we open-sourced it: We kept feeling that the space was drifting toward closed SaaS abstractions (VAPI, Retell). Those are good for demos, but once you need data controls, privacy or self/offline deployment, you end up stuck. We wanted a stack where you can see every part, fork it, self-host it, and patch it as needed. Try it: - Repo: https://github.com/dograh-hq/dograh This spins up a basic multilingual agent with everything pre-wired. Who this is for: - If you are looking for self hosting a Vapi like platform for Data Privacy etc. - Anyone trying to build production-grade voice agents without reinventing audio plumbing. - If you’ve tried to glue STT→LLM→TTS manually, you probably know the exact pain this is built for Happy to answer technical questions, show the architecture, or hear how we can improve the product.
16 points · Open discussion

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