Spitch STT integration guide

Overview

Spitch provides AI-powered speech and language solutions optimized for African languages. With LiveKit's Spitch STT integration and the Agents framework, you can build voice AI agents that understand speech in a variety of African languages.

Quick reference

This section provides a quick reference for the Spitch STT plugin. For more information, see Additional resources.

Installation

Install the plugin from PyPI:

pip install "livekit-agents[spitch]~=1.0"

Authentication

The Spitch plugin requires a Spitch API key.

Set SPITCH_API_KEY in your .env file.

Usage

Use Spitch STT in an AgentSession or as a standalone transcription service. For example, you can use this STT in the Voice AI quickstart.

from livekit.plugins import spitch

session = AgentSession(
   stt=spitch.STT(
      language="en",
   ),
   # ... llm, tts, etc.
)

Parameters

This section describes some of the available parameters. See the plugin reference for a complete list of all available parameters.

Additional resources

The following resources provide more information about using Spitch with LiveKit Agents.

Python package

The livekit-plugins-spitch package on PyPI.

Plugin reference

Reference for the Spitch STT plugin.

GitHub repo

View the source or contribute to the LiveKit Spitch STT plugin.

Spitch docs

Spitch's official documentation.

Voice AI quickstart

Get started with LiveKit Agents and Spitch.

Spitch TTS

Guide to the Spitch TTS integration with LiveKit Agents.