🐯 Boo

Boo is a local REST API to use ML models in local desktop apps.

Models

You need install each tool following the instructions in the model's repository.

• 🐸 Coqui for text to speech
• 🦙 Llama for large language models
• 👁️‍🗨️ PaddleOCR for OCR (in progress)
• 👄 Whisper for speech to text

How it works

• ⚡ FastAPI for the REST API and websockets.
• 🟥 Redis for queueing.

Additional requirements are listed in the requirements.txt file.

Server Development

./run.sh

How to use it in your app

1. Create a new websocket connection to ws://localhost:5000/ws/{client_id}
2. Consume the API (using the same the client_id).
3. The tasks are queued using the REST API and the outcome will be sent using the websocket.

Example clients list

Web addon for chapGPT

Adds a button to the right of the <p> tags with the p selected to generate audio from the selected text and a button on the bottom input to transcribe audio to text.

Web addon Parrot

Adds a parrot button at the right of to the <p> tags with the p selected to generate audio from the selected text.