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dottie-talk

Local voice: STT + koko TTS (:1314) + HTTP façade (:1320).

Standalone. No gateway. No Dottie.app.

npm install
npm start

Bins ship in bin/ (macOS). Models download on first boot (~/.cache/parakeet.cpp, ~/.cache/dottie-talk or ~/.dottie).

Platform

STT

TTS

Apple Silicon (darwin)

parakeet-server :1315 (bundled)

koko :1314

Omarchy / Linux

voxtype (PATH, else fetched AVX2 binary + base.en)

koko :1314 (ELF fetched on first start as bin/koko-linux-x86_64)

Command

What

npm start

HTTP :1320 (starts STT+TTS)

npm run mcp

MCP stdio

npm run tts

TTS only (:1314)

dottie-talk speak "hi" / speak "hi"

TTS → speech.wav (or -o / stdout)

dottie-talk transcribe a.wav / transcribe a.wav

STT → text on stdout

dottie-talk start

same as npm start

dottie-talk health

STT/TTS readiness JSON

dottie-talk keys on

enable talk-keys-style hotkeys (off by default)

dottie-talk keys off

disable hotkeys

dottie-talk keys status

enabled / armed / chords

dottie-talk bar on

Omarchy menubar icon (hidden until start)

dottie-talk stop

stop the HTTP server

npx speak "hello" -o hello.wav
speak "hello" -o hello.wav   # after dottie-talk bar on (~/.local/bin/speak)
npx transcribe hello.wav

Node ≥22. Override STT with DOTTIE_STT=voxtype or DOTTIE_STT=parakeet.

Linux: if voxtype is already on PATH, talk uses it. If not, first start downloads the x86_64 AVX2 binary into ~/.cache/dottie-talk/bin and base.en (no sudo, no pacman). npm start skips the Darwin bin/koko and downloads the linux-bins ELF the same way. Streaming/multipart STT needs parakeet — buffered JSON /v1/audio/transcriptions works on both.

Keys (Linux)

Talk-keys analog. Off by default. Enable, then keep npm start running so binds arm:

dottie-talk keys on
npm start

Chord

Action

Omarchy

Alt+S

Speak selection if present, else clipboard. Second tap stops.

Steals app Alt+S menu accelerators while armed

Alt+D

Hold to dictate (voxtype push-to-talk)

Steals browser Alt+D address bar while armed; leaves Super+Ctrl+X / F9 alone

Escape

Stop speak

Only consumed while playback is active

Config: ~/.config/dottie-talk/config.json

{
  "keys": {
    "enabled": false,
    "speak": "ALT + S",
    "stop": "ESCAPE",
    "dictate": "ALT + D",
    "voice": ""
  }
}

DOTTIE_TALK_KEYS=on / off overrides enabled. Hotkeys no-op when the HTTP server is down. macOS: use talk-keys.

Related MCP server: io.github.chicogong/ffvoice

Bar (Omarchy)

Menubar icon only while npm start is running. Click: keys toggle, speak selection, stop, quit. Middle-click quits.

dottie-talk bar on
dottie-talk start

start on Linux also installs the plugin (sd.dottie-talk) next to Dottie if the bar does not already have it.

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