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Handling audio content in Botium Box is based on Botium Speech Processing, a unified, developer-friendly API to the best available free and Open-Source Speech-To-Text and Text-To-Speech services as well as cloud services.

Botium Speech Processing comes with a reasonable default configuration.

• MaryTTS for Text-To-Speech

• Kaldi for Speech-To-Text

!!! note Both of them are free and Open Source and a good match to get started with voice technologies, on the other hand they are without a doubt among the best free voice tools available.

Launching it can be done with a few command line calls.

$ git clone https://github.com/codeforequity-at/botium-speech-processing.git
$ cd botium-speech-processing
$ docker-compose up -d

Botium supports all major cloud services. In Botium Speech Processing service, a default provider is configured.

For the major cloud providers there are additional docker-compose files. If using those, the installation is more slim, as there is only the frontend-service required. For instance, add your Azure subscription key and Azure region key to the file docker-compose-azure.yml and start the services:

$ docker-compose -f docker-compose-azure.yml up -d

In order to enable audio capabilities in Botium Box, you have to add two environment variables to Botium Box Server (see here for details):

• SPEECH_PROCESSING_ENDPOINT - the URL to your Botium Speech Processing installation

• SPEECH_PROCESSING_APIKEY - in case you configured Botium Speech Processing API Key protection