SimpleParakeet

A Simple, Local, Fast OpenAI Whisper-compatible speech-to-text inference solution for SkyrimNet, using parakeet.cpp on CPU.

Port	Role
8210	Whisper API (SkyrimNet points here)
8211	Internal recognition engine

Quick start (Windows)

1. Unzip SimpleParakeet-windows-x64.zip.
2. Double-click RUN-ME.bat.
3. On first launch, confirm or change ports.
4. When ready, paste the printed endpoint into SkyrimNet, for example:
   http://127.0.0.1:8210/v1/audio/transcriptions
   • Model: whisper-1
   • API key: any non-empty value
5. Leave the window open while playing. Press Enter in that window to stop.

Change ports later: pwsh -File launch.ps1 -Setup

Quick start (Linux)

Intended for host-native use with SkyrimNet under Proton/Wine: run SimpleParakeet on Linux, point the game at 127.0.0.1 — do not install the Windows zip into your Wine prefix.

1. Unzip SimpleParakeet-linux-x64.zip.
2. Double-click RUN-ME.sh (opens a terminal). Or from a terminal: chmod +x RUN-ME.sh && ./RUN-ME.sh
3. On first launch, confirm or change ports (keep 127.0.0.1 unless you know you need otherwise).
4. Paste the printed endpoint into SkyrimNet External Whisper (same model/key as above).
5. Leave the terminal open. Press Enter to stop.

Change ports later: ./launch.sh --setup

Localhost (127.0.0.1) does not require UFW/firewalld changes for Proton→host traffic.

The model file is included under models/ (CC BY 4.0; see licenses/).

Licenses

See licenses/: shim MIT, parakeet.cpp MIT, GGUF CC-BY-4.0 (mudler/parakeet-cpp-gguf), FFmpeg LGPL when bin/ffmpeg / bin/ffmpeg.exe is included.