{
 "schema_version": 1,
 "generated": "2026-10-23",
 "id": "scorbo2-talkwithme--voice-persona-chat-with-tts-and-stt",
 "repo": "scorbo2/TalkWithMe",
 "repo_url": "https://github.com/scorbo2/TalkWithMe",
 "repo_slug": "scorbo2-talkwithme",
 "title": "Hear and speak to personas with TTS and STT",
 "page_title": "How to hear and speak to personas with TTS and STT with Talk with Me",
 "summary": "Add spoken replies from a TTS server and voice prompts through a Whisper-style STT server.",
 "who": "A user who wants to talk to AI personas by voice and hear them reply, usually on a home workstation with a GPU.",
 "problem": "Text-only chat is slow for conversation practice, accessibility, or hands-free use.",
 "outcome": "Persona replies play as audio in the room, and you can click the microphone icon to speak your prompt.",
 "steps": [
  "Start a tts-serve instance and note its base URL, then set tts.base_url in settings.yaml (the README example is http://localhost:5500).",
  "Start an OpenAI-compatible STT server with a /v1/audio/transcriptions endpoint, such as whisper-fastapi, and set stt.base_url to its root (the README example is http://localhost:8181).",
  "Set tts.enabled and stt.enabled to true in settings.yaml.",
  "Run `uvicorn app.main:app --host 0.0.0.0 --port 8000 --reload` and open http://localhost:8000.",
  "Click the microphone icon, speak a prompt, and confirm that a persona replies with audio."
 ],
 "agent_prompt": "Use the TalkWithMe repo to configure TTS at <tts-base-url> and STT at <stt-base-url> in settings.yaml, then start the app. Send the spoken test phrase <test-phrase> and report the transcribed text and whether a persona audio reply was produced. Verify that the transcription matches the phrase.",
 "agents": [
  "any"
 ],
 "difficulty": "Advanced",
 "time": "120 minutes",
 "basis": "readme",
 "caveat": "TTS and STT are separate servers that you must install and run yourself; the README points to tts-serve and whisper-fastapi for them.",
 "category": "Software and DevOps",
 "tags": [
  "Software and DevOps"
 ],
 "lang": "python",
 "requirements": [
  "Python 3.10 or newer",
  "A locally running llama.cpp server with an OpenAI-compatible API (the README mentions the --api flag)",
  "A clone of the TalkWithMe repository and its dependencies installed from requirements.txt"
 ],
 "risk": "dual-use",
 "seen_in_the_wild": false,
 "mentioned_publicly": false,
 "risks": [
  {
   "tag": "voice-cloning",
   "notice": "Persona folders can hold ref.wav reference audio for voice cloning, so only use voices you have permission to clone."
  }
 ],
 "best": false,
 "score": 0.9,
 "evidence": [],
 "url": "https://dedupedai.com/use-cases/scorbo2-talkwithme/voice-persona-chat-with-tts-and-stt/",
 "md": "https://dedupedai.com/use-cases/scorbo2-talkwithme/voice-persona-chat-with-tts-and-stt/index.md",
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}