Praxis CI bba99418df feat(P01-02-04): Pipecat server pipeline — Silero VAD→Deepgram→Ollama→TTS→WebRTC
server/pipeline.py assembles the Pipecat pipeline (D-017): WebRTC audio in →
Deepgram Nova-3 STT → LLMContextAggregator(user) → OLLamaLLMService
(gemma4:cloud via https://ollama.com/v1 + bearer, R6) → Cartesia/Piper TTS
(selected via PRAXIS_TTS) → WebRTC audio out. Interruptibility via
allow_interruptions=True (D-008 abort-and-yield). Hardcoded single-turn
system prompt (SLICE-03 replaces with scenario YAML). All keys from env;
missing keys log a warning and the pipeline still starts (code structure is
the deliverable). server/__main__.py exposes a FastAPI app with /health
(reports key-provisioning status) and POST /pipecat/webrtc (accepts an SDP
offer, starts a pipeline task, returns the answer). Verified: imports
succeed, /health returns 200, routes wired.

---ci---
phase: 1
milestone: v0.1
plan: 02
task: 02-04
status: execute
persona: backend-engineer
requirements:
  covered: [REQ-VOICE-01, REQ-VOICE-02, REQ-VOICE-04, REQ-ORCH-01]
---/ci---
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Praxis — v0.1 Foundation

Voice-first AI apprenticeship platform. v0.1 is a tech-validation harness (per G-008) for the minimal viable voice loop: a single learner speaks to an AI tutor playing a Customer Service role-play scenario, hears a <600ms-latency response, receives an end-of-session coaching debrief, and has the session logged to SQLite.

Status

Phase 1 (minimal viable voice loop) — code-complete, pending live API keys for runtime verification.

Stack

  • Orchestration: Pipecat (D-017) with Silero VAD + interruptibility
  • ASR: Deepgram Nova-3 streaming (D-013)
  • LLM: Ollama Cloud direct API (D-020) — gemma4:cloud (role-play) + deepseek-v4-flash:cloud no-think (debrief)
  • TTS: Cartesia Sonic (primary, D-014) / Piper (self-hosted, R4 mitigation) — behind an interface
  • Client: React + Vite + WebRTC (Pipecat client SDK, D-015)
  • State: SQLite praxis.db (D-007, single hardcoded learner, no auth)

Layout

server/      Pipecat pipeline, services (TTS/LLM/Guardrail interfaces), scenario runtime, adapters
client/      React + Vite + WebRTC learner surface
scenarios/   YAML scenario definitions (D-018)
db/          SQLite schema, migrations, async store
scripts/     Latency probes (R1-R4), e2e smoke
tests/       Unit + e2e
docs/        Latency report, debrief templates

Quickstart

  1. Copy .env.example.env, fill in DEEPGRAM_API_KEY, CARTESIA_API_KEY, OLLAMA_API_KEY.
  2. Install server deps: pip install -e ".[dev]"
  3. Install client deps: cd client && npm install
  4. Run probes: python scripts/probe_deepgram.py (etc.)
  5. Run server: python -m server
  6. Run client: cd client && npm run dev

See docs/latency-report.md for the R1-R4 spike status and TTS decision.

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