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Speaches

OpenAI-compatible speech server for transcription and text-to-speech

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Last commit17 Oct 2026
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Speaches (formerly faster-whisper-server) is a server that offers OpenAI-compatible speech-to-text and text-to-speech endpoints using faster-whisper, Piper and Kokoro models. Point Open WebUI, Home Assistant or your own apps at it instead of OpenAI's audio API.

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Runs withDocker, Python
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The project README documents running it with Docker.

Sources: github.com/speaches-ai/speaches, checked 19 Oct 2026. “Runs with” is from this listing. Blank means we haven't found it in official docs yet, not that it's unsupported.

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