Support for external tts and stt into the adk

[Rvey]

Hello, I'm interested in understanding the recommended approach for integrating various Speech-to-Text (STT) and Text-to-Speech (TTS) systems into AI agent workflows using the Google Agent Development Kit (ADK) , Could you provide guidance or best practices on how to achieve this?

thanks

[boyangsvl]

Currently what you can do is do the STT and TTS outside, e.g.:

1. STT
2. Call runner.run_async with text
3. TTS

We have some thought about native integration with STT and TTS to make it easier in the future.

[Rvey]

Hello, thanks! What do you mean by 'native integration'? Are other languages like Arabic and French supported for both STT and TTS?