# FasterWhisper STT Server Script

**URL:** https://community.openconversational.ai/t/fasterwhisper-stt-server-script/14949
**Category:** Speech To Text (STT /ASR)
**Created:** [May 15, 2024, 4:39pm UTC](https://community.openconversational.ai/t/fasterwhisper-stt-server-script/14949 "2024-05-15T16:39:05Z")
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### Author: ![mikejgray](https://community.openconversational.ai/user_avatar/community.openconversational.ai/mikejgray/32/3966_2.png) [@mikejgray](https://community.openconversational.ai/u/mikejgray)
#### Post date: [May 15, 2024, 4:39pm UTC](https://community.openconversational.ai/t/fasterwhisper-stt-server-script/14949/1 "2024-05-15T16:39:05Z")

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Hey folks! In a long-awaited followup to my blog post on running Piper TTS, here’s a post describing how to bootstrap a FasterWhisper STT server. It doesn’t use containers deliberately, as many folks aren’t comfortable with them.

The script runs on any Debian-based OS but could be easily tweaked to run on other OSes. It sets up FasterWhisper using CPU inference and the medium.en model, but again, those settings are easily tweaked. For settings to apply to your server’s `~/.config/mycroft.mycroft.conf` file, please see the plugin’s README: [GitHub - OpenVoiceOS/ovos-stt-plugin-fasterwhisper: FasterWhisper for OpenVoiceOS](https://github.com/OpenVoiceOS/ovos-stt-plugin-fasterwhisper/)

> **[FasterWhisper STT Server Script](https://blog.graywind.org/posts/fasterwhisper-stt-server-script/)**
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> Running a FasterWhisper STT Server on a Raspberry Pi Over the course of the last year, I’ve spent a considerable amount of time helping Neon and OVOS users customize their voice assistants. OVOS and Neon are both incredibly flexible platforms, which...

Please give it a spin and let me know if it works out for you! Happy to make any adjustments needed.

-Mike