vision-agents-plugins-inworld 0.5.8

Inworld AI integration for Vision Agents (TTS + Realtime WebRTC)

Inworld AI Plugin

Inworld AI integration for Vision Agents. Provides both text-to-speech and a WebRTC-based Realtime speech-to-speech conversational API.

Installation

uv add "vision-agents[inworld]"
# or directly
uv add vision-agents-plugins-inworld

Get your API key from the Inworld Portal and set INWORLD_API_KEY in your environment (or pass api_key= explicitly).

TTS

High-quality text-to-speech with streaming support. The plugin now defaults to Inworld's TTS-2 model (currently in research preview), which adds natural-language steering, 100+ languages (15 GA, 90+ experimental), and high-quality instant voice cloning over the previous inworld-tts-1.5-* generation.

from vision_agents.plugins import inworld

# Defaults to model_id="inworld-tts-2", voice_id="Sarah"
tts = inworld.TTS()

# Or specify explicitly
tts = inworld.TTS(
    api_key="your_inworld_api_key",
    voice_id="Ashley",
    model_id="inworld-tts-2",
    temperature=1.1,
)

TTS options

• api_key: Inworld AI API key (default: reads from INWORLD_API_KEY)
• voice_id: Voice to use (default: "Sarah"; "Dennis", "Ashley", "Olivia", "Clive" and custom/cloned voices also supported)
• model_id: "inworld-tts-2" (default), "inworld-tts-1.5-max", "inworld-tts-1.5-mini". "inworld-tts-1" and "inworld-tts-1-max" are deprecated by Inworld — migrate to inworld-tts-2 or inworld-tts-1.5-*.
• temperature: 0–2 (default: 1.1)

The plugin requests LINEAR16 (16-bit PCM WAV) chunks from Inworld so each streamed chunk is self-contained and decodes cleanly under streaming TTS; no extra configuration needed.

Steering (TTS-2)

TTS-2 takes natural-language stage directions inline with your text. Place the instruction in square brackets before the segment it should apply to:

text = (
    "[whisper in a hushed style] I have to tell you something. "
    "[laugh] Just kidding! [say with force] Now let's get to work."
)
async for chunk in await tts.stream_audio(text):
    ...

Steering covers articulation, intonation, volume, pitch, range, speed, and vocal style — and supports non-verbal sounds like [laugh], [breathe], [clear throat], [sigh], [cough], [yawn]. Combining dimensions ([whisper in a hushed style], [say playfully and very fast]) produces better results than bare single-word tags. See Inworld's steering docs and prompting guide for the full reference.

Agent example

A complete example wiring inworld.TTS() into a Stream-edge agent with Deepgram STT, Gemini LLM, and smart-turn detection lives at example/inworld_tts_example.py. The companion example/inworld-audio-guide.md is loaded as the agent's system prompt and teaches the LLM how to emit TTS-2 steering tags so replies sound expressive out of the box.

Realtime (WebRTC)

Low-latency speech-to-speech via Inworld's Realtime API. This transport uses WebRTC (UDP, native Opus) for lower latency than the WebSocket alternative. Requires a WebRTC-capable edge transport — pair with getstream.Edge() as shown below.

from vision_agents.core import Agent, User
from vision_agents.plugins import getstream, inworld, smart_turn

agent = Agent(
    edge=getstream.Edge(),
    agent_user=User(name="My Agent", id="agent"),
    llm=inworld.Realtime(
        model="openai/gpt-4o-mini",
        voice="Dennis",
        instructions="You are a friendly voice assistant.",
    ),
    turn_detection=smart_turn.TurnDetection(),
)

Realtime options

• model: provider-prefixed model ID. Examples: "openai/gpt-4o-mini" (default), "google-ai-studio/gemini-2.5-flash", "inworld/<router-id>" for an Inworld router
• voice: voice for audio responses (default: "Dennis"; "Clive", "Olivia" and custom voices also supported)
• api_key: Inworld AI API key (default: reads from INWORLD_API_KEY)
• instructions: system prompt
• realtime_session: advanced — pass a full RealtimeSessionCreateRequestParam for session fields not exposed by the primary args (custom turn-detection, tool_choice, etc.)

Registering tools

realtime = inworld.Realtime()

@realtime.register_function(description="Get the current weather for a city.")
async def get_weather(city: str) -> str:
    return f"It's sunny in {city}."

Tools follow the OpenAI function-calling schema. Inworld's Realtime API is protocol-compatible with OpenAI's Realtime API, so registered functions flow through the same response.function_call_arguments.done path.

Notes

• v1 is WebRTC only; a WebSocket transport may be added later.
• Video input is not currently supported by Inworld's Realtime API.

Requirements

• Python 3.10+
• httpx>=0.28, av>=10, aiortc>=1.9, openai[realtime]>=2.26,<3