Thai AI companions and roleplay

// Runs on Bun as-is; on Node, `import WebSocket from "ws"` accepts
// the same constructor options. Browsers cannot send this header, and
// API keys never ship to browsers anyway.
const socket = new WebSocket("wss://api.paxalabs.com/v1/tts/live", {
  headers: { Authorization: `Bearer ${process.env.PAXA_API_KEY}` },
});
socket.binaryType = "arraybuffer";

socket.onopen = () => {
  socket.send(JSON.stringify({
    type: "start",
    model: "paxa-tts-flash-v1",
    voice: "khanomkrok",
    timestamps: "word",
  }));
  // Send text whenever it becomes available, token by token if you like.
  socket.send(JSON.stringify({ type: "text", text: "สวัสดีครับ ยินดีต้อนรับสู่ Paxa Labs" }));
  socket.send(JSON.stringify({ type: "flush" }));
  socket.send(JSON.stringify({ type: "end" }));
};

socket.onmessage = (event) => {
  if (typeof event.data === "string") {
    const message = JSON.parse(event.data);
    if (message.type === "done") socket.close();
    return;
  }
  player.feed(new Uint8Array(event.data)); // binary frames are audio
};

import json
import os

from websockets.sync.client import connect  # pip install websockets

with connect(
    "wss://api.paxalabs.com/v1/tts/live",
    additional_headers={"Authorization": f"Bearer {os.environ['PAXA_API_KEY']}"},
) as socket:
    socket.send(json.dumps({"type": "start", "model": "paxa-tts-flash-v1", "voice": "khanomkrok"}))
    socket.send(json.dumps({"type": "text", "text": "สวัสดีครับ ยินดีต้อนรับสู่ Paxa Labs"}))
    socket.send(json.dumps({"type": "flush"}))
    socket.send(json.dumps({"type": "end"}))

    with open("speech.mp3", "wb") as f:
        for frame in socket:
            if isinstance(frame, bytes):
                f.write(frame)  # binary frames are audio
                continue
            event = json.loads(frame)
            if event["type"] == "done":
                break

curl -X POST https://api.paxalabs.com/v1/tts \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $PAXA_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{
    "text": "สวัสดีครับ ยินดีต้อนรับสู่ Paxa Labs",
    "voice": "khanomkrok",
    "model": "paxa-tts-flash-v1",
    "format": "mp3",
    "stream": false
  }' \
  --output speech.mp3