Speech-to-text (STT) is a technology that converts audio input into text. It allows users to interact with AI Agents using their voice.

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Overview

There are two ways to use the speech-to-text feature:
  • Real-time STT: Transcribes incoming audio tracks in real-time. Ideal when low-latency feedback is important.
  • Non-real-time STT: Transcribes audio blobs. Suitable when you already have a user audio recording implementation.

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Real-time STT

As a recommended approach, it connects to the user’s audio track and streams the transcription result in real time.

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Configuration

You can configure STT options in the config when calling join(). You may explicitly specify a language or enable automatic language detection. Specifying a language improves transcription accuracy. (link) If no language is specified, STT runs in the same language as the AI Avatar. 
await room.join({
  sessionId: "your-session-id",
  streamId: "your-stream-id",
  token: "your-token",
  config: {
    stt: {
      language: "ko",
    },
    unmuteUserAudioOnJoined: true,
  },
});
With this configuration, STT will automatically start when the joined event is triggered.

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Start transcription

room.unmuteUserAudio(); // publish user audio track and unmute
Unmutes the user’s audio. If the track is already published, it resumes sending audio data. If it is not published, it publishes the track and starts transmitting data.

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Stop transcription

room.muteUserAudio(); // mute user audio track
room.unpublishUserAudio(); // unpublish user audio track
Both methods stop STT. The difference is that unpublishUserAudio() disconnects the audio track entirely, while muteUserAudio() keeps the track published but stops sending audio data. To resume STT, use unmuteUserAudio(). If you stopped STT using muteUserAudio(), it can resume more quickly, so this is the recommended approach.

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Transcription results

Transcription results are delivered via events. 
room.on("stt-data", (data) => {
  const { type, text, eventType } = data;
  console.log(data);
});
room.on("stt-error", () => {});
By default, transcription uses the same language as the agent. If you’d like to detect the spoken language automatically, you can configure that when joining the room.(link)

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Non-real-time STT

Converts a recorded audio blob into text. 
const blob = await room.stopRecordingAudio();
const text = await room.stt(blob, "ko");
To learn more and see full feature, see the following topics:

STT Instance methods

Reference for STT instance methods.

STT Events

Reference for STT Events.