description: rustvani is a Rust-native voice agent pipeline framework — a from-scratch port of Pipecat for when 30MB of memory per instance is all There's a moment in every voice AI conversation where the user says something, and then... waits. Maybe 800 milliseconds. Maybe a full second. Maybe more. In that silence, trust evaporates. The user starts wondering if the bot heard them. They repeat themselves. The bot now has two overlapping utterances to deal with. Things spiral. I spent months obsessing over that silence. And eventually, I decided the best way to kill it was to stop fighting Python's runtime and just rewrite the whole pipeline in Rust. The result is rustvani (वाणी — vānī , meaning voice/speech) — a from-scratch Rust port of the Pipecat voice agent framework. It's open source, it's in production, and a single instance uses about 30MB of memory. Why Pipecat Deserved a Rust Port Let me be clear: Pipecat is excellent software.…