# kyutai-labs/unmute

Make text LLMs listen and speak

Repository: https://github.com/kyutai-labs/unmute
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/unmute
Language: Python
License: MIT
License Family: permissive
Last push: 2026-07-16T10:28:21+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 60/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-02T17:46:02.011165+00:00)
- activity 92, release rhythm 35, longevity 32
- inputs: {"age_days": 449, "days_push": 48, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: no_releases
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 1506, forks 249 (observed 2026-08-28T04:04:54.992323+00:00)

## What it is
Unmute is a system that lets any text LLM listen and speak by wrapping it with Kyutai's low-latency speech-to-text and text-to-speech models. It orchestrates a browser frontend, a websocket backend, STT/TTS servers, and an LLM (e.g. via OpenRouter or vLLM) into a real-time voice conversation pipeline.

## Use cases
- build a real-time voice chatbot powered by any text LLM
- add speech input and spoken responses to a text-only LLM
- self-host a low-latency voice assistant with STT and TTS
- create a web app where users talk to an AI and hear it reply
- run a voice agent pipeline with vLLM or OpenRouter as the LLM backend

## When to choose
- you want a full self-hostable voice conversation stack with low latency
- you already have or can pick any text LLM and want to add speech I/O
- you have a CUDA GPU with 16+ GB VRAM and run Linux or WSL

## When to avoid
- you need macOS or native Windows support
- you have no GPU available
- you only need STT or TTS alone rather than a full voice loop
- you need aarch64/ARM deployment

## Facets
- artifact type: application
- maturity: active
- function: speech-recognition, tts, llm-inference, websocket, http-server
- domain: speech-processing, large-language-models, artificial-intelligence
- platform: python
- tags: voice-assistant, real-time-speech, stt, tts, conversational-ai, low-latency, voice, linux, docker, gpu, web-server

## Member repositories
- kyutai-labs/unmute (main) score 60

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:04:54.992323+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-30T04:32:39.628770+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/kyutai-labs/unmute (fetched 2026-08-28T04:04:54.992323+00:00, sha 57391130a5bd)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.