TEN Dev Challenge 2025
Join Developers Worldwide to Build Conversational AI
What's This All About?
The TEN Dev Challenge 2025, hosted by TEN Framework, center on real-time engagement and Conversational AI, inviting developers worldwide to shape the next generation of voice-interaction products.
From voice companionship to smart homes to enterprise services, we look forward to discovering new voice-driven scenarios. Join us in exploring practical applications for voice agents!
TEN Framework
An open-source framework for conversational voice AI agents
Enables developers to quickly build real-time voice agents (with abilities of vision and others), making it easy for developers to experiment, integrate LLM, STT, TTS and create reusable extensions
Production-Ready & Real-Time
Low-latency, interruptible, and full-duplex conversations.
Highly Extensible
Easily integrate any mainstream or custom AI model.
Developer-Friendly
Build with pro-code (Node.js, Python, Go, C++) or a low-code canvas.
Multimodal Support
Simultaneously process voice, vision, text, and data streams.
Toolkit
An open-source framework for conversational voice AI agents.
Lightweight Voice Activity Detection with low latency and high accuracy, plus intelligent Turn Detection for natural conversations between humans and AI agents.
An AI IDE that helps you deliver from concept to production through simplified developer experience for working with AI agents.
A one-stop cloud service platform integrating top-tier large language models, providing developers with faster, more comprehensive, and seamlessly integrated model APIs.
Challenge Overview
Participants must build their projects using the open-source TEN Family（TEN Framework/TEN VAD/TEN Turn Detection）. You can integrate a wide range of technologies and hardware, such as ASR, LLMs, TTS, SIP, and ESP32 to create innovative voice-interactive applications.
Examples include:
Service Agents: Voice-powered customer service, smart eldercare helpers
IoT & Hardware: Voice-controlled smart home devices
Emotional Companions: AI live streamers, virtual companions
Prizes & Awards
💰 USD 11,000 Total Prize Pool
TEN Voice Innovation Award - Second Place (1 team)
TEN Voice Innovation Award - First Place (1 team)
TEN Voice Innovation Award - Third Place (2 teams)
TEN Technical Award (1 team)
For projects using TEN VAD or Turn Detection features
🏆 Kiro Prize
Each member of the Top 10 teams will be awarded a complimentary three-month Kiro Pro subscription.
Top 10 teams that use Kiro during development will receive an exclusive cash prize ($300 per team).
📋 Prize Eligibility
• To be eligible for the "TEN Voice Innovation Awards" (1st, 2nd, and 3rd place prizes), your project must be built primarily on the TEN Framework.
• Projects that only use the TEN VAD or Turn Detection features will only be considered for the "TEN Technical Award".
📝Judging Panel
Event Timeline
Registration Period
Submission Period
Judging
Winners Announced
🛠 Online Workshop: Building Conversational AI with TEN Framework
Want to crush the hackathon with your own conversational AI? 🚀
This workshop will show you how to build voice agents step by step using the TEN Framework. We’ll walk through TEN’s core concepts and module layout, configuration, and deployment—so you can make the most of TEN in the competition!
Make sure to join our Discord channel—we’ll be sharing the livestream link there!
How to Participate
Sign Up
Sign Up - Register on lu.ma and join our official Discord channel to stay updated.
Build
Build - Create your project using the open-source TEN Framework.
Project Eligibility
Open to All
Open to all. You can compete as an individual or in a team of up to 3 members.
Team Formation
Team Formation. You can form a team beforehand or find teammates on our Discord channel.
Build with TEN
Build with TEN. All projects must be built on the TEN Framework.
Original Work
Original Work. All submissions must be original work, free of any legal or copyright issues.
Note
Please click the following link to review the Participant Guidelines. By registering and submitting your project, you acknowledge and agree to follow these official guidelines.
Participant GuidelinesDiscord Community
Join us on the official Discord channel
If you have any questions about the competition, you can ask in our official Discord community or send an email to developer@theten.ai.
Find Teammates
Connect with other developers and form teams
Technical Support
Get help with TEN Framework implementation
Latest Updates
Stay updated with announcements and workshops
Ready to Build?
Join TEN Dev Challenge 2025 and reshape the future of human-AI interaction with real-time voice AI.