openai_stt

OpenAI STT Custom Component for Home Assistant

This custom component integrates OpenAI's Speech-To-Text (stt) service with Home Assistant, for people that run on Raspberry Pi and can't decently run Whisper locally.

This was made possible using the work of sfortis's openai_tts.

Description

The OpenAI STT component for Home Assistant makes it possible to use the OpenAI API to generate text from spoken audio. This can be used in assistants. You need an openAI API key.

Features

• Speech-To-Text conversion using OpenAI's API
• Support for multiple languages
• Integration with Home Assistant's assistant

Installation Instructions

1. Ensure you have a custom_components folder within your Home Assistant configuration directory.

2. Inside the custom_components folder, create a new folder named openai_stt.

3. Place the repo files inside openai_stt folder.

4. Restart Home Assistant

5. Configure the component in your configuration.yaml file:

stt:
  - platform: openai_stt
    api_key: "your_api_key_here"
    # Optional parameters:
    language: "en-US"
    model: "whisper-1"