I didn’t install piper and whisper but it would be nice if someone who manage to make this work on docker installation wrote guide on how to install this in docker.
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what about wyoming-piper and wyoming-faster-whisper
Well basically it’s simple to install whisper and piper.
I used this for piper and this for whisper.
Pull the container,change path to your path and run it. Rename containers to something like wyoming-piper and wyomin-whisper and add wyoming integration. For host I selected localhost and for port 10200 and 10300 and that was it.
Whisper and piper arre recognized in home assistant.
Can you Better explain how to select host ?
It would be possibile ti share the docker compose yaml ?
I didn’t select anything. I done exactly what i wrote:
- pull image
- change
-v /path/to/local/data:/data
to
-v /opt/whisper-piper/data:/data
and run the container.
I just renamed container and add wyoming integration selecting localhost and port. And that was it.
Edit:
I created new voice assistant to check if everything is working properly. Tested on my mobile phone and everything is working. It does recognize speech.
A working docker-compose for reference
version: "3"
services:
## wyoming
whisper:
container_name: whisper
image: rhasspy/wyoming-whisper
command: --model base-int8 --language fr
volumes:
- ./whisper-data:/data
environment:
- TZ=Europe/Brussels
restart: unless-stopped
ports:
- 10300:10300
piper:
container_name: piper
image: rhasspy/wyoming-piper
command: --voice fr-siwis-medium
volumes:
- ./piper-data:/data
environment:
- TZ=Europe/Brussels
restart: unless-stopped
ports:
- 10200:10200
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Hi,
I just tested your docker-compose and this is working, no problems at all. Thank you for posting this.
Do you maybe know how to add more languages to whisper container?
Are these docker images documented somewhere, e.g. how are they created?
I would prefer to install piper locally (and also whisper), without docker.
This is docker installation only. For addons installation check the docs.
Those, specifically, I don’t know, but you can check the addons Dockerfiles to reproduce out of docker.
Source code management is a bit messy atm, I must say. pip is used, but I can’t tell the source repository.
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You spin up more containers with your desired languages.
This is working setup of for both danish and english.
version: "4.0"
wyoming-piper-en:
image: rhasspy/wyoming-piper
container_name: piper-en
ports:
- 10200:10200
volumes:
- ${DOCKERCONFDIR}/piper/english:/data
command: --voice en-gb-southern_english_female-low
wyoming-whisper-en:
image: rhasspy/wyoming-whisper
container_name: whisper-en
ports:
- 10300:10300
volumes:
- ${DOCKERCONFDIR}/whisper/english:/data
command: --model tiny-int8 --language en
wyoming-piper-da:
image: rhasspy/wyoming-piper
container_name: piper-da
ports:
- 10201:10200
volumes:
- ${DOCKERCONFDIR}/piper/danish:/data
command: --voice da-nst_talesyntese-medium
wyoming-whisper-da:
image: rhasspy/wyoming-whisper
container_name: whisper-da
ports:
- 10301:10300
volumes:
- ${DOCKERCONFDIR}/whisper/danish:/data
command: --model tiny-int8 --language da
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I’m currently running HA on a RPI4, therefore I would like to keep the non-essential and CPU intensive tasks (frigate, tts, stt) on a separate host. It sounds like the Wyoming protocol will allow me to run piper and whisper on my Proxmox box so I don’t overload the Pi. Is there more documentation on this use case? Have others setup and tested this type of a configuration?
I tested configuration from @koying and this works with out any issue. I didn’t test configuration from @bjorn.sivertsen because I currently don’t have time do to it, but I will.
I don’t use pi because I think that you need a desktop comp for running ha and there is no need in for separate hosts if you are using docker. You can easily limit cpu and memory usage in docker like this
shm_size: "64mb"
mem_limit: "256m"
mem_reservation: "256m"
memswap_limit: "1024m"
cpus: "1"
cpuset: "2"
This is for my frigate config. My average cpu usage is about 23% running 22 containers on Intel(R) Core™ i3-4130 CPU @ 3.40GHz. For doc you can check around net, but this doesnt have a lot of impact on my system. Maybe around 0.5% to 1% of cpu usage.
this seems like a good place to post this…
I installed piper/whisper on a separate docker host and wanted to use the highest quality english model. it took 4 full CPU cores for abour 12 seconds before coming up with an answer to a short request.
I happened to have a beefy server avaiable, so I did some digging and found that you can passing this environment variable: OMP_NUM_THREADS=8 will allow the whisper process to use 8 cores instead of just 4.
I cant say it is twice as fast, but it is faster.
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You mean “medium-int8”, right?
I also did similar tests, for French, and also hit some wall at 13/15s with various CPU.
yes, im using medium-int8. I’m at 12 cores now with beam-size 5, and i think i’m getting around 10 seconds. i might just throw an insane number of cores at it just to see what it does…
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Good to know that CPU’s are basically irrelevant 
haha you can say that again. I just threw 100 CPU cores at it… it used %3000-%4000 CPU (30-40 cores) for a second or two, then settled aroung 800%… and still timed out, and then i saw in the container logs that i got an answer in 34 seconds ( 4 seconds after timeout)
Yeah. Maybe that beast wants quality rather than quantity. The CPU s I have are low-middle spec at best.