# Microphone


The Microphone pipeline reads input speech from a microphone device. This pipeline is designed to run on local machines given that it requires access to read from an input device.
## Example
The following shows a simple example using this pipeline.
```python
from txtai.pipeline import Microphone
# Create and run pipeline
microphone = Microphone()
microphone()
```
This pipeline may require additional system dependencies. See [this section](../../../install#environment-specific-prerequisites) for more.
See the link below for a more detailed example.
| Notebook | Description | |
|:----------|:-------------|------:|
| [Speech to Speech RAG](https://github.com/neuml/txtai/blob/master/examples/65_Speech_to_Speech_RAG.ipynb) [▶️](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tH8QWwkVMKA) | Full cycle speech to speech workflow with RAG | [](https://colab.research.google.com/github/neuml/txtai/blob/master/examples/65_Speech_to_Speech_RAG.ipynb) |
## Configuration-driven example
Pipelines are run with Python or configuration. Pipelines can be instantiated in [configuration](../../../api/configuration/#pipeline) using the lower case name of the pipeline. Configuration-driven pipelines are run with [workflows](../../../workflow/#configuration-driven-example) or the [API](../../../api#local-instance).
### config.yml
```yaml
# Create pipeline using lower case class name
microphone:
# Run pipeline with workflow
workflow:
microphone:
tasks:
- action: microphone
```
### Run with Workflows
```python
from txtai import Application
# Create and run pipeline with workflow
app = Application("config.yml")
list(app.workflow("microphone", ["1"]))
```
### Run with API
```bash
CONFIG=config.yml uvicorn "txtai.api:app" &
curl \
-X POST "http://localhost:8000/workflow" \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{"name":"microphone", "elements":["1"]}'
```
## Methods
Python documentation for the pipeline.
### ::: txtai.pipeline.Microphone.__init__
### ::: txtai.pipeline.Microphone.__call__