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Homelab Infrastructure

Whisper (STT)

Overview

Section titled “Overview”

Faster-Whisper provides local speech-to-text (STT) capabilities for our voice assistant. It is optimized for CPU performance, allowing near real-time transcription on our homelab server.

Ports

Section titled “Ports”
ServicePortProtocolDescription
Wyoming10300TCPWyoming protocol endpoint

Configuration

Section titled “Configuration”

The service is configured in modules/nixos/services/whisper.nix using the tiny model for maximum speed on the host CPU.

services.wyoming.faster-whisper.servers."es" = {
  enable = true;
  model = "tiny";
  language = "es";
  uri = "tcp://127.0.0.1:10300";
  device = "cpu";
};

Troubleshooting

Section titled “Troubleshooting”

Restarting the service

Section titled “Restarting the service”
Terminal window
sudo systemctl restart faster-whisper-es

Checking Logs

Section titled “Checking Logs”
Terminal window
sudo journalctl -u faster-whisper-es -f