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! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ - If you're looking to join a community for early AI adopters to master AI Coding & AI Agents and transform your career or business, check out Dynamous: https://dynamous.ai - Once you're in the community, here is the link to the LiveKit workshop! https://community.dynamous.ai/c/live-events/community-workshop-a69e7b ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ - GitHub repo with my LiveKit voice agents: https://github.com/coleam00/ottomator-agents/tree/main/livekit-agent - LiveKit Agents GitHub: https://github.com/livekit/agents/tree/main - Guide to deploying voice agent guide: https://docs.livekit.io/agents/start/voice-ai/ - LiveKit Cloud: https://cloud.livekit.io/ - LiveKit Agent Playground: https://agents-playground.livekit.io/ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 00:00 - Introducing LiveKit for Building Voice AI Agents 01:28 - Getting Started with LiveKit 02:21 - Building a Voice Agent from Scratch Together 05:57 - Testing Our New LiveKit Voice Agent 06:45 - Adding a Basic Tool to Our Voice Agent 08:14 - Adding Mock Airbnb Tools to Our Voice Agent 09:57 - Integrating the Real Airbnb API through MCP 12:06 - Testing Our Airbnb Voice Agent Live 13:03 - Dynamous LiveKit Workshop 13:45 - Deploying Our LiveKit Agent to the Cloud 17:30 - Live Voice Agent Test in the Browser 18:11 - More LiveKit Features & Final Thoughts ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Join me as I push the limits of what is possible with AI. I'll be uploading videos every week - Wednesdays at 7:00 PM CDT and often more!