# vosk

> Node binding for continuous offline voice recoginition with Vosk library.

Latest version **0.3.39** (published 2022-05-24) · Apache-2.0 license · 0 weekly downloads

## Install

```sh
npm install vosk
pnpm add vosk
yarn add vosk
bun add vosk
```

## Health

**Score 38/100 (D)** — status: abandoned.

Positive: has types package; no vulnerabilities; high maintenance score; popular repo.

Warnings: low downloads; no esm support; large bundle; pre 1.0.

Negative: abandoned.

## Facts

| | |
|---|---|
| Version | 0.3.39 |
| Published | 2022-05-24 |
| First published | 2021-02-09 |
| Weekly downloads | 0 |
| License | Apache-2.0 |
| TypeScript types | separate (@types/vosk) |
| Module format | CommonJS |
| Node | >= 12.x.x |
| Dependencies | 5 |
| Unpacked size | 81.9 MB |
| Known vulnerabilities | 0 |
| Install scripts | no |
| GitHub stars | 15229 |
| Author | Alpha Cephei Inc. |
| Maintainers | nshmyrev |
| Keywords | speech, speech recognition, voice |

## Links

- npm: https://www.npmjs.com/package/vosk
- Repository: https://github.com/alphacep/vosk-api
- Homepage: https://github.com/alphacep/vosk-api#readme
- Issues: https://github.com/alphacep/vosk-api/issues
- npm.io page: https://npm.io/package/vosk

## Dependencies (5)

- [mic](https://npm.io/package/mic.md) ^2.1.2
- [wav](https://npm.io/package/wav.md) ^1.0.2
- [async](https://npm.io/package/async.md) ^3.2.0
- [ffi-napi](https://npm.io/package/ffi-napi.md) ^4.0.3
- [ref-napi](https://npm.io/package/ref-napi.md) >=2.0.0

## Recent versions

- 0.3.39 (latest) — 2022-05-24
- 0.3.38 — 2022-05-24
- 0.3.32 — 2021-10-30
- 0.3.31 — 2021-08-31
- 0.3.30 — 2021-06-20
- 0.3.29 — 2021-06-20
- 0.3.27 — 2021-05-14
- 0.3.25 — 2021-04-26
- 0.3.24 — 2021-04-01
- 0.3.23 — 2021-03-17
- 0.3.21 — 2021-02-12
- 0.3.20 — 2021-02-09

## README

This is an FFI-NAPI wrapper for the Vosk library.

## Usage

Bindings mostly follow Vosk interface, some methods are not yet fully implemented.

See [demo folder](https://github.com/alphacep/vosk-api/tree/master/nodejs/demo) for
details.

## About

Vosk is an offline open source speech recognition toolkit. It enables
speech recognition for 20+ languages and dialects - English, Indian
English, German, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Chinese, Russian, Turkish,
Vietnamese, Italian, Dutch, Catalan, Arabic, Greek, Farsi, Filipino,
Ukrainian, Kazakh, Swedish, Japanese, Esperanto, Hindi, Czech. More to come.

Vosk models are small (50 Mb) but provide continuous large vocabulary
transcription, zero-latency response with streaming API, reconfigurable
vocabulary and speaker identification.

Vosk supplies speech recognition for chatbots, smart home appliances,
virtual assistants. It can also create subtitles for movies,
transcription for lectures and interviews.

Vosk scales from small devices like Raspberry Pi or Android smartphone to
big clusters.

# Documentation

For installation instructions, examples and documentation visit [Vosk
Website](https://alphacephei.com/vosk). See also our project on
[Github](https://github.com/alphacep/vosk-api).

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