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@kshahbw kshahbw commented May 5, 2026

Summary

Adds Bandwidth as a community-maintained Telephony Serializer integration.

The repo includes:

  • BandwidthFrameSerializer — handles Bandwidth Programmable Voice's bidirectional WebSocket protocol
  • Inbound μ-law decoding and outbound μ-law or linear PCM at 8/16/24 kHz (PCM at 24 kHz noticeably improves TTS quality)
  • Interruption handling via Bandwidth's clear event
  • Auto hang-up via the Bandwidth Voice API using OAuth 2.0 client_credentials
  • 20 unit tests (passing) + a single-file foundational FastAPI example at examples/bandwidth-chatbot/

Tested with Pipecat v1.1.0 and validated end-to-end on a real Bandwidth Programmable Voice call.

Test plan

  • Demo video shows: bot answering an inbound call, multi-turn conversation, mid-response interruption, clean hang-up
  • Audio path: inbound μ-law → STT (Deepgram in the example) → LLM → TTS → outbound μ-law over the same WebSocket
  • OAuth-based hang-up against the Voice API (REST)

Note: the linked repo is being made public alongside this listing. If anything 404s, that's the timing window — happy to keep this in draft until everything is reachable.

Adds an entry for the pipecat-bandwidth community integration under
Telephony Serializers, a Pipecat FrameSerializer for Bandwidth
Programmable Voice bidirectional WebSocket media streams.

Repository: https://github.com/Bandwidth/pipecat-bandwidth
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Video looks great, @kshahbw. Thanks for shooting it. Let me know once this is ready for review.

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