tiny-kaldi: A C++ repository from dtreskunov

Language bindings for Vosk and Kaldi to access high-quality speech recognition algorithms from various languages and on various platforms.

Python on Linux, Windows and Raspberry Pi
Node
Java
Android
iOS

This is a fork of alphacep/vosk-api aimed at providing timely releases and minor additions to the upstream project. I intend to provide PRs for my changes, hoping that they would get merged so that this fork can be archived.

Changes: the list of changes in this fork can be seen using GitHub compare view.

Releases: the latest release can be downloaded from the Releases page.

While the upstream project uses three-number version strings, this fork appends a fourth number so as to indicate which vosk-api release it's based on and not clash with the upstream releases.

Development Plans

Create automatic build pipeline
Produce easily-installable packages for Windows
Produce easily-installable packages for Mac
Publish Java JAR to Maven Central

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 is with pip. You do not have to compile anything. We currently support Linux on x86_64 and Raspberry Pi (armv6 and armv7). Mac builds will come soon.

Make sure you have newer pip and python:

Python version >= 3.5
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 a 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

Java example API build

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

Python module build

Then build the python module

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

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
python3 ./test_local.py test.wav

There are models for other languages available too.

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

Microphone example will come soon.