--- title: "Whisper" description: "Whisper is an app for Home Assistant. It has 34.3k installs sharing analytics and was last updated October 26, 2026." canonical: "https://vulpo.app/integrations/apps/whisper" url: "https://vulpo.app/integrations/apps/whisper.md" last-updated: "2026-10-22" version: "1.4" --- # Whisper > Whisper is an app for Home Assistant. It has 34.3k installs sharing analytics and was last updated October 26, 2026. Whisper is an app that adds local speech-to-text transcription to Home Assistant. Once running, it is discovered automatically by the Wyoming integration, which connects it to Home Assistant. It supports a default language, with an auto mode that detects the spoken language but runs much slower, and several Assist pipelines can use different languages at once. A choice of Whisper models is available, including compressed and distilled variants, and the default picks a smaller model on ARM devices. Custom models can be loaded from a local folder or from the HuggingFace Hub, and a beam size setting trades accuracy for performance. It can also translate spoken audio into English, and it requires Home Assistant OS on amd64 or aarch64. Automatic summary of the docs and configuration of home-assistant/apps. Something wrong, or are you the maintainer and want your own text here? [Get in touch](https://vulpo.app/contact) [Open in My Home Assistant](https://my.home-assistant.io/redirect/supervisor_app/?app=core_whisper) Apps need Home Assistant OS. Container and Core installs cannot run them. ## Supports - **Updated with Home Assistant**: Ships and updates with every Home Assistant release. ## Setting it up Install it under Settings, Apps, then start it. ## Permissions Needs no special permissions. ## Configuration - **Beam size**: Number of candidates to consider simultaneously during transcription (0 = auto). Increasing the beam size will increase accuracy at the cost of performance. - **Language**: Language to pre-load model for during start-up. - **Model**: Whisper model that will be used for transcription. The default auto selects tiny-int8 for ARM devices like the Raspberry Pi 4 and base-int8 otherwise. Compressed models (int8) are slightly less accurate than their counterparts, but smaller and faster. - **Custom model**: Path to a converted model directory, or a CTranslate2-converted Whisper model ID from the HuggingFace Hub like "Systran/faster-distil-whisper-small.en". If custom\_model\_type is set to 'transformers', a HuggingFace transformers Whisper model ID from HuggingFace like 'openai/whisper-tiny.en' may be used. - **Custom model type**: Speech-to-text backend to use for custom\_model if stt\_library is set to auto. - **Initial prompt**: Description of audio that can help Whisper transcribe unusual words better. - **Speech-to-text library**: Speech-to-text backend library to use. The default auto will select the best backend/model based on language/hardware. Overridden by custom\_model\_type when custom\_model is set. - **Whisper task**: Task to perform with the model. The default transcribe transcribes audio in the spoken language, while translate translates the spoken audio into English. - **Sherpa streaming**: Use streaming model with sherpa backend. This overrides the default English model with a faster but less accurate streaming model. - **VAD clip**: Use voice activity detection (VAD) to clip silence from audio before transcription. This is a latency win for silence-heavy audio, especially with batch backends like sherpa and funasr. Streaming backends are unaffected. - **Local files only**: Only use models that have already been downloaded, and never check online for updates. Leave this off until your models have downloaded, then turn it on to keep the add-on offline and skip the update check on every request. - **Debug logging**: Print DEBUG level messages to the app's log. ## At a glance - Kind: App - Number: 34.3k installs sharing analytics - Connection: Connection not stated - Upkeep: Part of Home Assistant - Needs: Needs Home Assistant OS - Runs on: x86-64, 64-bit ARM - Latest version: 3.5.3, last updated October 26, 2026 - Source: Independent directory, made by the developer of Vulpo. Not affiliated with Home Assistant or the Open Home Foundation. [About these numbers](https://vulpo.app/integrations/about) Last updated 2026-10-22. Source: https://vulpo.app/integrations/apps/whisper --- - HTML version of this page: https://vulpo.app/integrations/apps/whisper - Site index for agents: https://vulpo.app/llms.txt - Everything in one document: https://vulpo.app/llms-full.txt - All pages: https://vulpo.app/sitemap.xml