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id: livekit-plugins-aws
version: "1.6.10"
license: Apache-2.0
license_treatment: permissive
maintenance: active
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# livekit-plugins-aws — LiveKit Agents Plugin for services from AWS

License: permissive · Maintenance: active · Downloads: 424.8K/mo

## What it is and what it does

This package bridges Amazon's AI services into LiveKit Agents, a framework for building voice-based AI applications. It provides four main components: a RealtimeModel for bidirectional speech-to-speech using Amazon Nova (with Nova 2 Sonic as the default), an LLM interface powered by Bedrock (defaulting to Nova 2 Lite), speech-to-text via Transcribe, and text-to-speech via Polly. The plugin handles the integration plumbing so you can compose these services into conversational agents.

The package is designed for developers building real-time voice agents that need AWS's AI capabilities. It supports multilingual conversations, automatic language detection and response mirroring, 18 expressive voices across multiple languages, and function calling for tool use. A recent breaking change switched the default realtime model from Nova Sonic 1.0 to Nova 2 Sonic, which adds text input support and mixed audio/text modalities; you can revert to the older model explicitly if needed.

Use it for:

- Build multilingual voice assistants that automatically detect and respond in the user's spoken language using Nova 2 Sonic.
- Create real-time speech-to-speech conversational agents with low-latency bidirectional streaming and interruption handling.
- Combine Transcribe + Nova LLM + Polly in a pipeline for speech-to-text, reasoning, and text-to-speech workflows.
- Add function calling and tool use to voice agents for weather lookups, web searches, or custom business logic.
- Deploy voice agents with multiple expressive voices and polyglot support across English, French, Italian, German, Spanish, Portuguese, and Hindi.

## Worth the install?

AI-flagged interpretation of the facts above — verify before relying.

Integrates Amazon AWS AI services (Bedrock, Polly, Transcribe, Nova) into LiveKit Agents for speech-to-speech, text-to-speech, speech-to-text, and LLM capabilities.

Yes. The package is actively maintained (released 1 day ago), has no known vulnerabilities, low install friction, and Apache-2.0 licensing. Install it if you are building LiveKit voice agents and need AWS AI services (Bedrock, Transcribe, Polly, Nova). Ensure you have AWS credentials with Bedrock access and Python >=3.10.0 before proceeding.

## Install

pip install livekit-plugins-aws
uv add livekit-plugins-aws
poetry add livekit-plugins-aws

## Installing livekit-plugins-aws

Before you install: Low install friction; pure Python wheel with three runtime dependencies (aiobotocore, aws-sdk-transcribe-streaming, livekit-agents). Actively maintained with a release 1 day old and 13003 repository stars.

License in practice: Apache-2.0 permissive license allows commercial and private use with minimal restrictions; suitable for most projects.

Quickstart:

pip install livekit-plugins-aws

from livekit.plugins import aws

model = aws.realtime.RealtimeModel.with_nova_sonic_2()
# or for LLM: llm = aws.llm.LLM()
# or for STT: stt = aws.stt.STT()
# or for TTS: tts = aws.tts.TTS()

Requires AWS credentials (AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID, AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY, AWS_DEFAULT_REGION) with Bedrock access; Python >=3.10.0.

Verify before relying:

- Whether Nova 2 Sonic realtime models require additional dependencies beyond the base install (description mentions optional [realtime] extra).
- Specific latency or throughput characteristics of realtime speech-to-speech streaming.
- Cost implications of using different Nova models and AWS services through this plugin.

## Package facts

- License: Apache-2.0 (permissive)
- Python support: supports_current
- Install friction: low
- Maintenance: active
- Downloads: 424.8K/month (top 15,000 on PyPI)
- Known vulnerabilities: none known

## Tags

aws bedrock livekit integration, amazon nova speech-to-speech, aws transcribe polly agents, realtime voice ai agents, livekit aws plugin, amazon nova sonic voice, aws ai voice agents, voice-agents, aws-integration, realtime-streaming

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