Add local TTS/STT wrapper servers (chatterbox, faster-whisper) as openai_compatible providers

Wraps the locally installed chatterbox-tts and faster-whisper packages in thin
FastAPI servers implementing OpenAI's audio API shape, since neither Ollama nor
OpenRouter support speech. Pinned to GPU 2 to avoid contending with Ollama's
resident models on GPU 1. Requires UFW rules for 8901/8902 (same pattern as
the existing 11434 rule) since UFW defaults to deny-incoming.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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A separate local `llama.cpp` server exists on this machine (managed via `~/llamacppctl-server_neu/llamacppctl/`, container name `llama_cpp_server`) but is **not** wired into this stack. It can be added later as an additional OpenAI-compatible provider through the Open Notebook UI (Settings → AI Providers) if needed — note it competes for the same GPU 1/2 VRAM as Ollama, so don't run large models on both simultaneously.
### Text-to-speech / speech-to-text
Open Notebook's `openai_compatible` provider type talks to any endpoint implementing OpenAI's audio API shape (`POST /audio/speech`, `POST /audio/transcriptions` — see `esperanto.providers.tts.openai_compatible` / `.stt.openai_compatible` inside the app container for the exact contract). Since neither Ollama nor OpenRouter support TTS/STT, two thin wrapper servers in `services/` expose the locally installed tools this way:
- `services/tts_server.py` — wraps `chatterbox-tts` (via `~/chatterbox-tts-cli/chatterbox_cli_v4.py`), run with the `chatterbox` conda env (`~/miniforge3/envs/chatterbox/bin/python`).
- `services/stt_server.py` — wraps `faster-whisper` (`large-v3` model), run with the base `python3`.
Both are plain background processes (`nohup ... &`), **not** systemd units — they don't survive a reboot; restart manually if needed:
```bash
cd ~/open-notebook/services
CUDA_VISIBLE_DEVICES=2 TTS_PORT=8901 nohup ~/miniforge3/envs/chatterbox/bin/python tts_server.py > logs/tts_server.log 2>&1 &
CUDA_VISIBLE_DEVICES=2 STT_PORT=8902 nohup python3 stt_server.py > logs/stt_server.log 2>&1 &
```
They're pinned to `CUDA_VISIBLE_DEVICES=2` deliberately — GPU 1 tends to fill up with Ollama's resident models (`OLLAMA_KEEP_ALIVE=-1` keeps them loaded), so TTS/STT get GPU 2 to themselves rather than risking an OOM race with Ollama.
Reachability from the `open_notebook` container requires **two things**, both already done: the `extra_hosts: host.docker.internal:host-gateway` entry in `docker-compose.yml`, and UFW rules allowing inbound `8901/tcp` and `8902/tcp` (same pattern as the existing `11434/tcp` rule for Ollama — UFW defaults to deny-incoming, so any new host-side port a container needs to reach must be explicitly opened).
Registered in Open Notebook as `openai_compatible` credentials with `base_url=http://host.docker.internal:8901` (TTS) / `:8902` (STT), and set as `default_text_to_speech_model` / `default_speech_to_text_model`.
## Secrets
`.env` (gitignored) holds `OPEN_NOTEBOOK_ENCRYPTION_KEY` (encrypts provider credentials stored in SurrealDB), `SURREAL_PASSWORD`, and `OPENROUTER_API_KEY`. `.env.example` is the committed template. Provider API keys can also be entered directly in the Open Notebook UI after first startup — the project's own docs recommend this over env vars for better security since they get encrypted at rest.

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#!/usr/bin/env python3
"""OpenAI-compatible STT wrapper around faster-whisper, for Open Notebook.
Implements exactly the endpoint esperanto's OpenAICompatibleSpeechToTextModel calls:
POST /audio/transcriptions (multipart: file, model, language?, prompt?) -> {"text": ...}
Start:
python3 stt_server.py
Env vars:
STT_HOST (default 0.0.0.0), STT_PORT (default 8902)
WHISPER_MODEL (default large-v3), WHISPER_COMPUTE_TYPE (default float16)
CUDA_VISIBLE_DEVICES should be set by the caller (e.g. "1,2") to keep GPU 0 free.
"""
from __future__ import annotations
import os
import tempfile
from pathlib import Path
from faster_whisper import WhisperModel
from fastapi import FastAPI, File, Form, UploadFile
app = FastAPI(title="faster-whisper STT (OpenAI-compatible)", version="1.0")
_MODEL_SIZE = os.environ.get("WHISPER_MODEL", "large-v3")
_COMPUTE_TYPE = os.environ.get("WHISPER_COMPUTE_TYPE", "float16")
_model = WhisperModel(_MODEL_SIZE, device="cuda", compute_type=_COMPUTE_TYPE)
@app.get("/health")
def health():
return {"status": "ok", "model": _MODEL_SIZE}
@app.post("/audio/transcriptions")
async def transcriptions(
file: UploadFile = File(...),
model: str = Form(default="whisper-1"),
language: str | None = Form(default=None),
prompt: str | None = Form(default=None),
):
suffix = Path(file.filename or "audio").suffix or ".wav"
with tempfile.NamedTemporaryFile(suffix=suffix, delete=False) as tmp:
tmp.write(await file.read())
tmp_path = tmp.name
try:
segments, _info = _model.transcribe(
tmp_path,
language=language,
initial_prompt=prompt,
)
text = "".join(segment.text for segment in segments).strip()
finally:
os.unlink(tmp_path)
return {"text": text}
if __name__ == "__main__":
import uvicorn
uvicorn.run(app, host=os.environ.get("STT_HOST", "0.0.0.0"),
port=int(os.environ.get("STT_PORT", "8902")))

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#!/usr/bin/env python3
"""OpenAI-compatible TTS wrapper around chatterbox-tts, for Open Notebook.
Implements exactly the endpoint esperanto's OpenAICompatibleTextToSpeechModel calls:
POST /audio/speech {model, voice, input, response_format} -> raw audio bytes
Start:
~/miniforge3/envs/chatterbox/bin/python tts_server.py
Env vars:
TTS_HOST (default 0.0.0.0), TTS_PORT (default 8901)
CUDA_VISIBLE_DEVICES should be set by the caller (e.g. "1,2") to keep GPU 0 free.
"""
from __future__ import annotations
import os
import subprocess
import sys
import tempfile
from pathlib import Path
sys.path.insert(0, str(Path.home() / "chatterbox-tts-cli"))
import chatterbox_cli_v4 as tts # noqa: E402
import torch
import torchaudio as ta
from fastapi import FastAPI, HTTPException, Response
from pydantic import BaseModel
app = FastAPI(title="Chatterbox TTS (OpenAI-compatible)", version="1.0")
_DEVICE = tts.get_device(None)
_model_cache: dict[str, tuple] = {}
def _get_model(lang: str):
key = "en" if lang == "en" else "multi"
if key not in _model_cache:
_model_cache[key] = tts.load_model(lang, _DEVICE, t3_model="v3")
return _model_cache[key]
class SpeechRequest(BaseModel):
model: str | None = None
voice: str = "de"
input: str
response_format: str = "mp3"
_FORMAT_CONTENT_TYPE = {
"mp3": "audio/mpeg",
"wav": "audio/wav",
"opus": "audio/opus",
"flac": "audio/flac",
"aac": "audio/aac",
}
@app.get("/health")
def health():
return {"status": "ok", "device": _DEVICE}
@app.get("/audio/voices")
def voices():
return {"voices": [{"id": lang, "name": lang} for lang in sorted(tts.SUPPORTED_LANGS)]}
@app.post("/audio/speech")
def speech(req: SpeechRequest):
lang = req.voice if req.voice in tts.SUPPORTED_LANGS else "de"
raw = tts.clean_raw_text(req.input)
raw_chunks = tts.split_into_sentences(raw, max_len=400)
chunks = [tts.preprocess_tts_text(c, lang=lang, pronunciation_dict=None) for c in raw_chunks]
chunks = [c for c in chunks if c.strip()]
if not chunks:
raise HTTPException(status_code=422, detail="Kein synthetisierbarer Text übrig.")
model, model_kind, sr = _get_model(lang)
wavs = []
for chunk in chunks:
wavs.append(tts.generate_chunk(model, model_kind, chunk, lang, None))
final = wavs[0] if len(wavs) == 1 else torch.cat(wavs, dim=-1)
with tempfile.NamedTemporaryFile(suffix=".wav", delete=False) as wav_tmp:
wav_path = wav_tmp.name
ta.save(wav_path, final, sr)
fmt = req.response_format if req.response_format in _FORMAT_CONTENT_TYPE else "wav"
try:
if fmt == "wav":
audio_bytes = Path(wav_path).read_bytes()
else:
out_path = wav_path.replace(".wav", f".{fmt}")
subprocess.run(
["ffmpeg", "-y", "-i", wav_path, out_path],
check=True, capture_output=True,
)
audio_bytes = Path(out_path).read_bytes()
os.unlink(out_path)
finally:
os.unlink(wav_path)
return Response(content=audio_bytes, media_type=_FORMAT_CONTENT_TYPE[fmt])
if __name__ == "__main__":
import uvicorn
uvicorn.run(app, host=os.environ.get("TTS_HOST", "0.0.0.0"),
port=int(os.environ.get("TTS_PORT", "8901")))