Quickdial

Overview

QuickdialSTTService transcribes speech to text using Quickdial’s speech-to-text API (powered by whisper.cpp). It extends Pipecat’s SegmentedSTTService: an upstream VAD segments speech into utterances, each of which is transcribed and pushed downstream as a TranscriptionFrame.

Source Repository

Source code, examples, and issues for the Quickdial integration

PyPI Package

The pipecat-quickdial package on PyPI

Learn more about Quickdial and get an API key

Docs

Quickdial API reference (REST + WebSocket)

Installation

This is a community-maintained package distributed separately from pipecat-ai:

uv add pipecat-quickdial

Prerequisites

Quickdial account — sign up at web.quickdial.ai (1000 free credits, no card required).
API key — create one in the dashboard.

Required environment variables

QUICKDIAL_API_KEY=qtts_live_your_key

Configuration

Parameter	Type	Default	Description
`api_key`	`str`	`QUICKDIAL_API_KEY` env var	Your Quickdial API key.
`language`	`str`	`"en"`	Transcription language.
`base_url`	`str`	`https://api.quickdial.ai`	API base URL.
`sample_rate`	`int`	pipeline default	Input sample rate (Hz).
`params`	`dict`	`None`	Optional model knobs passed through to the API.

Usage

import os

from pipecat_quickdial import QuickdialSTTService

stt = QuickdialSTTService(
    api_key=os.getenv("QUICKDIAL_API_KEY"),
    language="en",
)

# ...add `stt` to your Pipecat Pipeline([...]) (with a VAD upstream)

Additional resources

pipecat-quickdial on GitHub — source, example, and issues
Quickdial API docs

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Quickdial

Overview

Source Repository

PyPI Package

Quickdial

Docs

Installation

Prerequisites

Required environment variables

Configuration

Usage

Additional resources

​Overview

Source Repository

PyPI Package

Quickdial

Docs

​Installation

​Prerequisites

​Required environment variables

​Configuration

​Usage

​Additional resources

Overview

Installation

Prerequisites

Required environment variables

Configuration

Usage

Additional resources