# Hugging Face — FastRTC: The Real-Time Communication Library for Python

- Company: Hugging Face (huggingface.co)
- Announced: 2025-02-25T00:00:00+00:00
- Category: developer-tool-release
- Subject: Platform
- Source: https://huggingface.co/blog/fastrtc
- Record: https://forck.live/items/1740-fastrtc-the-real-time-communication-library-for-python

Hugging Face announces FastRTC, a real-time communication library for Python that makes it easy to build real-time audio and video AI applications. The library includes automatic voice detection and turn taking, a built-in WebRTC-enabled Gradio UI, phone call support via fastphone(), WebRTC and Websocket support, and utilities for text-to-speech, speech-to-text, and stop word detection.

## Evidence

Verbatim from https://huggingface.co/blog/fastrtc:

> That's why we're excited to announce FastRTC, the real-time communication library for Python. The library is designed to make it super easy to build real-time audio and video AI applications entirely in Python!

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