Websockets

Coda plain-text WebSocket (/ws): send text, receive raw audio bytes.

Python

import asyncio
import websockets
import os
from dotenv import load_dotenv

load_dotenv()
api_key = os.environ.get('RIME_API_KEY')
if not api_key:
    raise ValueError("RIME_API_KEY environment variable is not set")

FILE_PATH = "coda_ws.wav"

class RimeClient:
    def __init__(self, speaker, api_key):
        self.url = f"wss://users-ws.rime.ai/ws?speaker={speaker}&modelId=coda&audioFormat=wav"
        self.auth_headers = {
            "Authorization": f"Bearer {api_key}"
        }
        self.audio_data = b''

    async def send_tokens(self, websocket, message):
        for token in message:
            await websocket.send(token)

    async def handle_audio(self, websocket):
        while True:
            try:
                audio = await websocket.recv()
            except websockets.exceptions.ConnectionClosedOK:
                break
            self.audio_data += audio

    async def run(self, message):
        async with websockets.connect(self.url, additional_headers=self.auth_headers) as websocket:
            await asyncio.gather(
                self.send_tokens(websocket, message),
                self.handle_audio(websocket),
            )

    def save_audio(self, file_path):
        with open(file_path, 'wb') as f:
            f.write(self.audio_data)

message = [
    "This ",
    "is ",
    "a ",
    "test ",
    "of ",
    "the ",
    "coda ",
    "model ",
    "using ",
    "websockets ",
    "and ",
    "python.",
    "<EOS>",
]

client = RimeClient("astra", api_key=api_key)
asyncio.run(client.run(message))

print(f"Saving audio to {FILE_PATH}")
client.save_audio(FILE_PATH)

The Rime API authenticates every request with a bearer token in the Authorization header: Authorization: Bearer YOUR_API_KEY. See API authentication for how to create a key.

Include modelId=coda in the connection query. If you omit it, the server routes the request to Mist v3 and speakers outside the Mist v3 catalog can fail with Speaker not found.

Overview

Rime’s websocket implementation accepts bare text, and responds with audio bytes of the selected format. All synthesis arguments are provided as query parameters when establishing the connection.

Messages

Send

The messages your client will send to the websocket API will be bare (non-serialized) text.

This will be converted to audio via websockets

Receive

The messages your client will receive will be raw audio bytes in the audio format specified at connection time.

<FF>^@^@^@9LAME3.100^AP^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^T<A0>$^D>"^@^@<A0>^@^@<A8><C0><BA><9D>G^N^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@
^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@
^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@

Commands

Use these commands to manipulate the stored text buffer.

<CLEAR>

This clears the current buffer. Used in the event of interruptions.

<FLUSH>

This forces whatever buffer exists, if any, to be synthesized, and the generated audio to be sent over.

<EOS>

This forces whatever buffer exists, if any, to be synthesized, and for the server to close the connection after sending the generated audio.

Variable parameters

speaker · string · required

Must be a coda voice from the Rime voice catalog.

text · string · required

The text you’d like spoken. Character limit per request is 1,000 via the API and in the dashboard UI.

modelId · string · default: "mistv3"

Set this to coda. It is not strictly required, but if you omit it the server defaults to the Mist v3 backend, and speakers outside the Mist v3 catalog fail with a “Speaker not found” error.

audioFormat · string

One of wav, mp3 (or mpeg), ogg (Opus in OGG), webm (Opus in WebM), pcm (or l16), or mulaw (or pcmu). Unrecognized values fall back to wav.

lang · string · default: "eng"

If provided, the language must match the language spoken by the provided speaker. Both the 2-letter ISO 639-1 and the 3-letter ISO 639-2/3 form are accepted:

639-1	639-2/3	Language
en	eng	English
es	spa	Spanish
fr	fra	French
pt	por	Portuguese
de	ger	German
ja	jpn	Japanese
ar	ara	Arabic
hi	hin	Hindi

See the voices documentation for which speakers support each language.

samplingRate · int · default: "24000"

The sampling rate in Hz. Any positive integer is accepted; values above the model’s native rate are upsampled. Common choices are 8000 (telephony), 16000, 22050, 24000, and 44100.

segment · string · default: "bySentence"

Controls how text is segmented for synthesis. Available options:

• “immediate” - Synthesizes text immediately without waiting for complete sentences
• “never” - Never segments the text, waits for explicit flush or EOS
• “bySentence” (default) - Waits for complete sentences before synthesis

Note: For backward compatibility, setting immediate=true in query params is equivalent to segment=immediate. If a null value is provided, it will default to “bySentence”.

Python

import asyncio
import websockets
import os
from dotenv import load_dotenv

load_dotenv()
api_key = os.environ.get('RIME_API_KEY')
if not api_key:
    raise ValueError("RIME_API_KEY environment variable is not set")

FILE_PATH = "coda_ws.wav"

class RimeClient:
    def __init__(self, speaker, api_key):
        self.url = f"wss://users-ws.rime.ai/ws?speaker={speaker}&modelId=coda&audioFormat=wav"
        self.auth_headers = {
            "Authorization": f"Bearer {api_key}"
        }
        self.audio_data = b''

    async def send_tokens(self, websocket, message):
        for token in message:
            await websocket.send(token)

    async def handle_audio(self, websocket):
        while True:
            try:
                audio = await websocket.recv()
            except websockets.exceptions.ConnectionClosedOK:
                break
            self.audio_data += audio

    async def run(self, message):
        async with websockets.connect(self.url, additional_headers=self.auth_headers) as websocket:
            await asyncio.gather(
                self.send_tokens(websocket, message),
                self.handle_audio(websocket),
            )

    def save_audio(self, file_path):
        with open(file_path, 'wb') as f:
            f.write(self.audio_data)

message = [
    "This ",
    "is ",
    "a ",
    "test ",
    "of ",
    "the ",
    "coda ",
    "model ",
    "using ",
    "websockets ",
    "and ",
    "python.",
    "<EOS>",
]

client = RimeClient("astra", api_key=api_key)
asyncio.run(client.run(message))

print(f"Saving audio to {FILE_PATH}")
client.save_audio(FILE_PATH)