what is text streams?
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most-vr-18651
03/26/2025, 12:31 PMwhat is text streams?
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tall-airline-16756
03/26/2025, 12:31 PMThanks for reaching out, Anigilaje. I'm an AI assistant and I'm here to help. Give me a moment while I research this topic.
tall-airline-16756
03/26/2025, 12:31 PMText streams in LiveKit provide a simple way to send text between participants in real-time. They are designed for use cases such as chat, streamed LLM responses, and more. Each stream is associated with a topic, and you must register a handler to receive incoming streams for that topic. Streams can target specific participants or the entire room.
If you need to send other types of data like files, images, or binary data, LiveKit offers byte streams for those purposes.
Sources: Realtime data | LiveKit Docs | Sending text | LiveKit Docs
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most-vr-18651
03/26/2025, 12:32 PMprovide a real time example of using text streams
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tall-airline-16756
03/26/2025, 12:32 PMWhile the concept of text streams in LiveKit is clear—they allow for real-time text communication between participants for use cases like chat or streamed LLM responses—specific real-time examples or code implementations are not available in the provided resources. If you have a particular use case in mind, feel free to share, and I can assist further!
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most-vr-18651
03/26/2025, 12:33 PMI want to send users-generated answers ot agent back to llm.
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tall-airline-16756
03/26/2025, 12:34 PMThe available resources do not provide specific guidance on sending user-generated answers to an LLM using text streams in LiveKit. However, text streams are designed for real-time text communication, so they could potentially be used to send user inputs to an LLM for processing. If you have more details about your setup or requirements, I can assist further or escalate the query to a specialist for more in-depth support.