diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 4375d98..68c89b2 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -17,6 +17,11 @@ Next, download required nltk data
 $ python bin/download.py
 ```
 
+Start the `vosk` server for speech recognition
+```
+$ docker run -d -p 2700:2700 alphacep/kaldi-en:latest-en:latest
+```
+
 ## TODO
 
 - [x] properly load intents data from json
diff --git a/config.py b/config.py
index faf6bf9..e42d987 100644
--- a/config.py
+++ b/config.py
@@ -9,3 +9,6 @@
 
 # api
 API_URL = "http://localhost:8000"
+
+# voice stream
+VOSK_URL = "ws://localhost:2700"
diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index 49b7318..cd7f0ac 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -1,3 +1,4 @@
+asyncio==3.4.3
 certifi==2022.5.18.1
 charset-normalizer==2.0.12
 click==8.1.3
@@ -13,4 +14,5 @@ torch==1.11.0
 tqdm==4.64.0
 typing_extensions==4.2.0
 urllib3==1.26.9
+websockets==10.3
 zipp==3.8.0
diff --git a/stream.py b/stream.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..b746b7c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/stream.py
@@ -0,0 +1,44 @@
+# stream audio to vosk server
+import asyncio
+import websockets
+import sounddevice as sd
+
+import config
+
+
+def callback():
+    # TODO push audio block to queue
+    pass
+
+
+def open_device(device_num):
+    print(sd.query_devices())
+    samplerate = 80
+    blocksize = 8000
+    return sd.RawInputStream(
+        samplerate=samplerate,
+        blocksize=blocksize,
+        device=device_num,
+        dtype='int16',
+        channels=1,
+        callback=callback
+    )
+
+
+async def run(uri):
+    audio_queue = asyncio.Queue()
+    with open_device(1) as device:
+        async with websockets.connect(uri) as sock:
+            await sock.connect('{ "config": {"sample_rate": %d }' % (device.samplerate))
+
+            while True:
+                data = await audio_queue.get()
+                await sock.send(data)
+                await sock.recv()
+
+            await sock.send('{"eof": 1}')
+            await sock.recv()
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    asyncio.run(run(config.VOSK_URL))
+