Amazon Transcribe with Hermes Agent - Custom STT Plugin

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Learn to build a custom speech-to-text plugin for Hermes Agent using Amazon Transcribe, leveraging AWS services for efficient STT functionality

intermediate Published 9 Jul 2026

Action Steps

Run an EC2 instance with Hermes Agent installed
Configure OpenRouter as the model provider for Hermes Agent
Build a custom STT plugin using Amazon Transcribe
Integrate the custom plugin with Hermes Agent
Test the custom STT plugin for speech-to-text functionality

Who Needs to Know This

Developers and DevOps engineers working with Hermes Agent and AWS services can benefit from this tutorial to enhance their agent's capabilities with custom STT plugins

Key Insight

💡 Building custom plugins for Hermes Agent is surprisingly easy and can enhance its capabilities with services like Amazon Transcribe

Key Takeaways

Learn to build a custom speech-to-text plugin for Hermes Agent using Amazon Transcribe, leveraging AWS services for efficient STT functionality

Full Article

I run Hermes Agent on an EC2 instance, firstly, because I know it well, and secondly, because I get a lot of AWS Community Builder credits. Although I use OpenRouter as the model provider (as Bedrock's offering is quite limited), there are other services that can be used to complete the agent's harness for abilities such as speech-to-text, text-to-speech, OCR and others. It turns out, building custom plugins for Hermes is surprisingly easy! So today, we are going to build one for speech-to-te

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