Rust Voice Assistant

Rust Voice Assistant

A lightweight Rust-based voice assistant with speech-to-text and text-to-speech capabilities, using Whisper for STT and ElevenLabs for TTS.

📖 Overview

Rust Voice Assistant captures audio asynchronously, transcribes it with Whisper, processes basic commands, and responds with ElevenLabs TTS. Ideal for offline STT and cloud TTS integration.

🎬 Demo

Set API key, run cargo run, say "time", hear response.

✨ Features

-🎤 STT & TTS

• Whisper for transcription.
• ElevenLabs for speech synthesis.

-🚀 Async

• Tokio for concurrency.
• CPAL for audio capture.

-🛠️ Command Processing

• Basic NLP for commands.

📦 Installation

-🔧 Compile from Source

Clone

git clone https://github.com/mkyla/rust-voice-assistant.git cd rust-voice-assistant

Build

cargo build --release

📋 Usage Guide

1. Set ELEVENLABS_API_KEY
2. Download Whisper model to models/
3. Run ./target/release/rust-voice-assistant

Say commands, get responses.

⚙️ Configuration

• API Key: ELEVENLABS_API_KEY env var
• Model: models/ggml-base.en.bin

🛠️ Development

-🧩 Core Components

1. main.rs: Audio loop, transcription, command handling, TTS.

-🛠️ Tech Stack

• Rust 2021
• STT: Whisper
• TTS: ElevenLabs API
• Audio: CPAL, Rodio

📄 License

BSD-3-Clause