Two standalone, non-interactive commands convert between audio and text with no LLM and no
daemon involved - handy for scripting and quick lookups.
Speech to text: --stt
Transcribes a wav file to text and exits - no LLM, no TTS. Uses the whisper model of the
selected agent (-a).
Transcribe a wav file
vtmate --stt recording.wav
Transcribe wav audio piped in from STDIN
cat recording.wav | vtmate --stt -
Text to speech: -r-stdout
Streams synthesized speech to STDOUT as a wav, with no on-screen text, no navigation and
no audio device - the full explanation and both example invocations live on
Read mode.
Quick example
vtmate -r-stdout myfile.txt -a reader > myfile.wav
Printable quicksheet: --render-quicksheet-pdf
Writes the printable quicksheet PDF to the current folder and exits - another one-shot
utility flag, unrelated to STT/TTS but similarly scriptable.
vtmate --render-quicksheet-pdf