OpenAI APIs for TTS/STT?

[skorokithakis]

Is there (a plan for) a way to use the OpenAI servers for STT/TTS? They are fairly slow, unfortunately, but they might be a good option for some people.

[kristiankielhofner]

It's not exactly impossible but it hasn't been a focus because as you say it's quite slow - to the point of going against our mission of an Alexa-competitive voice interface.

Willow has a fairly unique streaming method to WIS. I'm not completely familiar with the OpenAI speech API but at best you'd almost certainly need a proxy of some sort, and if you were doing advanced things like audio compression (AMR) you'd need to do more.

[skorokithakis]

Makes sense, thank you.