voice engine

Part of BlackRoad OS — Sovereign Computing for Everyone

voice engine is part of the BlackRoad OS ecosystem — a sovereign, distributed operating system built on edge computing, local AI, and mesh networking by BlackRoad OS, Inc.

About BlackRoad OS

BlackRoad OS is a sovereign computing platform that runs AI locally on your own hardware. No cloud dependencies. No API keys. No surveillance. Built by BlackRoad OS, Inc., a Delaware C-Corp founded in 2025.

Key Features

• Local AI — Run LLMs on Raspberry Pi, Hailo-8, and commodity hardware
• Mesh Networking — WireGuard VPN, NATS pub/sub, peer-to-peer communication
• Edge Computing — 52 TOPS of AI acceleration across a Pi fleet
• Self-Hosted Everything — Git, DNS, storage, CI/CD, chat — all sovereign
• Zero Cloud Dependencies — Your data stays on your hardware

The BlackRoad Ecosystem

Organization	Focus
BlackRoad OS	Core platform and applications
BlackRoad OS, Inc.	Corporate and enterprise
BlackRoad AI	Artificial intelligence and ML
BlackRoad Hardware	Edge hardware and IoT
BlackRoad Security	Cybersecurity and auditing
BlackRoad Quantum	Quantum computing research
BlackRoad Agents	Autonomous AI agents
BlackRoad Network	Mesh and distributed networking
BlackRoad Education	Learning and tutoring platforms
BlackRoad Labs	Research and experiments
BlackRoad Cloud	Self-hosted cloud infrastructure
BlackRoad Forge	Developer tools and utilities

Links

• Website: blackroad.io
• Documentation: docs.blackroad.io
• Chat: chat.blackroad.io
• Search: search.blackroad.io

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Voice I/O for BlackRoad agents. Whisper speech-to-text + Piper text-to-speech with a conversation loop.

Usage

from voice import VoiceEngine

engine = VoiceEngine()

# Record and transcribe
text = engine.listen(duration=5)
print(text)

# Text to speech
engine.speak("Hello from BlackRoad")

# Voice conversation loop (listen → agent → speak)
engine.converse(agent_id="road")

CLI

python voice.py listen [seconds]        # Record + transcribe
python voice.py speak "Hello world"     # TTS + play
python voice.py converse [agent_id]     # Voice conversation loop

Backends

STT (Speech-to-Text):

1. Whisper via Ollama (fleet inference)
2. Local whisper CLI fallback

TTS (Text-to-Speech):

1. Piper TTS (fast, offline, high quality)
2. espeak fallback (Linux)
3. macOS say fallback

Recording:

1. sox (cross-platform)
2. arecord (Linux/ALSA)

Environment

OLLAMA_URL=http://192.168.4.96:11434
WHISPER_MODEL=whisper
CHAT_MODEL=qwen2.5:1.5b
PIPER_BIN=piper
PIPER_MODEL=en_US-lessac-medium.onnx
RECORD_SECONDS=5

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