Language bindings for Vosk and Kaldi to access speech recognition from various languages and on various platforms

• Python on Linux, Windows and RPi
• Node
• Android
• iOS

Android build

cd android
gradle build

Please note that medium blog post about 64-bit is not relevant anymore, the script builds x86, arm64 and armv7 libraries automatically without any modifications.

Python installation from Pypi

The easiest way to install vosk api is with pip. You do not have to compile anything. We currently support only Linux on x86_64 and Raspberry Pi. Other systems (windows, mac) will come soon.

Make sure you have newer pip and python:

• Python version >= 3.4
• pip version >= 19.0

Uprade python and pip if needed. Then install vosk on Linux with a simple command

pip3 install vosk

Compilation from source

If you still want to build from scratch, you can compile Kaldi and Vosk yourself. The compilation is straightforward but might be a little confusing for newbie. In case you want to follow this, please watch the errors.

Kaldi compilation for local python, node and java modules

git clone -b lookahead --single-branch https://github.com/alphacep/kaldi
cd kaldi/tools
make

install all dependencies and repeat make if needed

extras/install_openblas.sh
cd ../src
./configure --mathlib=OPENBLAS --shared --use-cuda=no
make -j 10

Python module build

Then build the python module

export KALDI_ROOT=<KALDI_ROOT>
cd python
python3 setup.py install

Java example API build

Or Java

cd java && KALDI_ROOT=<KALDI_ROOT> make
wget https://github.com/alphacep/kaldi-android-demo/releases/download/2020-01/alphacep-model-android-en-us-0.3.tar.gz
tar xf alphacep-model-android-en-us-0.3.tar.gz 
mv alphacep-model-android-en-us-0.3 model
make run

C# build

Or C#

cd csharp && KALDI_ROOT=<KALDI_ROOT> make
wget https://github.com/alphacep/kaldi-android-demo/releases/download/2020-01/alphacep-model-android-en-us-0.3.tar.gz
tar xf alphacep-model-android-en-us-0.3.tar.gz 
mv alphacep-model-android-en-us-0.3 model
mono test.exe

Running the example code with python

Run like this:

cd vosk-api/python/example
wget https://github.com/alphacep/kaldi-android-demo/releases/download/2020-01/alphacep-model-android-en-us-0.3.tar.gz
tar xf alphacep-model-android-en-us-0.3.tar.gz 
mv alphacep-model-android-en-us-0.3 model-en
python3 ./test_simple.py test.wav

There are models for other languages (English, Chinese, Spanish, Portuguese, German, French, Russian) available too at https://github.com/alphacep/kaldi-android-demo/releases

To run with your audio file make sure it has proper format - PCM 16khz 16bit mono, otherwise decoding will not work.

You can find other examples of using a microphone, decoding with a fixed small vocabulary or speaker identification setup in python/example subfolder

Contact Us

If you have any questions, feel free to

• Post an issue here on github
• Send us an e-mail at [email protected]
• Join our group dedicated to speech recognition on Telegram @speech_recognition