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How to hear and speak to personas with TTS and STT with Talk with Me

Add spoken replies from a TTS server and voice prompts through a Whisper-style STT server.

Authorization notice. Talk with Me is dual-use. Only use it on software, sites and systems you own or have explicit permission to test.

Voice cloning. Persona folders can hold ref.wav reference audio for voice cloning, so only use voices you have permission to clone.

Who it is forA user who wants to talk to AI personas by voice and hear them reply, usually on a home workstation with a GPU.

The problemText-only chat is slow for conversation practice, accessibility, or hands-free use.

The outcomePersona replies play as audio in the room, and you can click the microphone icon to speak your prompt.

What you need first

  • 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

Steps

  1. 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).
  2. 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).
  3. Set tts.enabled and stt.enabled to true in settings.yaml.
  4. Run uvicorn app.main:app --host 0.0.0.0 --port 8000 --reload and open http://localhost:8000.
  5. Click the microphone icon, speak a prompt, and confirm that a persona replies with audio.

Prompt for your agent

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.

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.

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