xAI STT plugin guide

Overview

This plugin allows you to use xAI as an STT provider for your voice agents.

Quick reference

This section includes a basic usage example and some reference material. For links to more detailed documentation, see Additional resources.

Installation

Install the plugin from PyPI:

uv add "livekit-agents[xai]~=1.5"

pnpm add @livekit/agents-plugin-xai

Authentication

The xAI plugin requires an xAI API key.

Set XAI_API_KEY in your .env file.

Usage

Use xAI 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 xai

session = AgentSession(
  stt = xai.STT(),
  # ... llm, tts, etc.
)

import * as xai from '@livekit/agents-plugin-xai';

const session = new voice.AgentSession({
    stt: new xai.STT(
        language="en"
    ),
    // ... llm, tts, etc.
});

Parameters

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

Additional resources

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

Python package

ReferenceGitHubPyPI

Node.js plugin

ReferenceGitHubNPM

xAI docs

xAI STT docs.

Voice AI quickstart

Get started with LiveKit Agents and xAI STT.