termux-stt 1.2.1 → 1.2.3
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# Termux-STT
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> **Termux-STT** is an industrial-grade, zero-compilation on-device Speech-to-Text (STT) and multi-speaker diarization framework engineered specifically for Android Termux, ARM64 mobile hardware, and edge environments. By orchestrating a Tri-Engine acoustic pipeline (**Whisper.cpp**, **Vosk/Kaldi**, and **Sherpa-ONNX Zipformer**) with pure-Python x-vector speaker clustering and direct Vulkan GPU acceleration, Termux-STT achieves sub-realtime transcription speeds (up to **10x faster than real-time**, RTF **0.102x**) and continuous offline listening with zero cloud telemetry.
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> **Bundled ARM64 Binary Architecture**: The official Python universal wheel (`termux_stt-*.whl`) directly bundles a pre-compiled Android ARM64 (Bionic libc) `whisper-cli` ELF executable inside `termux_stt/bin/whisper-cli`. When installed via `pip`, this binary is automatically unpacked into Python `site-packages`. Pure 16kHz WAV transcription is functional immediately without requiring any local C/C++ compiler toolchain.
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| **Audio Subsystem** | Termux-API Microphone Permissions | 16kHz PCM Audio Capture Support |
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Termux-STT is open-sourced under the **MIT License**.
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Copyright (c) 2026 Eunho Kim (@uno-km) & AMEVA Open-Source Foundation.
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Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy
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of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal
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in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights
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to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell
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copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is
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furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:
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The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all
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FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE
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AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER
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LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM,
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## 12. SEO Technical Keywords & Ecosystem Metadata
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`termux`, `stt`, `speech-to-text`, `whisper`, `whisper-cpp`, `vosk`, `sherpa-onnx`, `diarization`, `speaker-diarization`, `voice-recognition`, `audio-transcription`, `on-device-ai`, `edge-ai`, `mobile-ai`, `vulkan`, `vulkan-compute`, `gpu-acceleration`, `real-time-factor`, `low-latency`, `arm64`, `android`, `snapdragon`, `adreno`, `exynos`, `arm-mali`, `zero-compilation`, `vad`, `voice-activity-detection`, `silero-vad`, `x-vector`, `k-means`, `clustering`, `srt-export`, `vtt-export`, `rttm`, `microphone-streaming`, `headless-audio`, `pulseaudio`, `offline-speech`, `privacy-first`, `termux-aichain`, `termux-tts`, `termux-llamacpp`, `termux-diffusion`, `ameva-runtime`, `ggml`, `quantization`, `bionic-libc`, `autonomous-agents`, `voice-assistant`
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## Official Documentation & Foundation Ecosystem
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- **Official Documentation Portal**: [https://uno-km.github.io/termux-stt/](https://uno-km.github.io/termux-stt/)
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- **GitHub Repository**: [https://github.com/uno-km/termux-stt](https://github.com/uno-km/termux-stt)
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- **AMEVA Foundation Portal**: [https://uno-km.vercel.app/foundation/index.html](https://uno-km.vercel.app/foundation/index.html)
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