Month 2026-01 — Summary of key engineering outcomes and impact: - Key features delivered: Implemented Vonage Audio/Video WebSocket integration with FastAPI transport enhancements in pipecat-ai/pipecat, including serializers for the Vonage Audio Connector WebSocket protocol and the Vonage Frame Serializer for the Video API; added optional fixed-size audio packetization and clarified audio framing semantics. - Major bugs fixed: No dedicated bugs reported this month; included targeted maintenance improvements such as renaming audio_packet_bytes to fixed_audio_packet_size to improve clarity and reduce potential misuse. - Overall impact and accomplishments: Enabled real-time audio processing workflows within Pipecat via Vonage integration, accelerating time-to-value for customers building real-time communications; improved reliability and clarity of audio framing in the transport layer; demonstrated strong cross-repo collaboration with documentation alignment. - Technologies/skills demonstrated: FastAPI WebSockets, Python serializers/deserializers, Vonage API integration, documentation and cross-repo collaboration, changelog-driven PR practices.