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Your Open WebUI Instance

You can always access your created Open WebUI instances from the link below: https://sleekchat.ai/instances

Here's mine, clicking on the `Open WebUI` button will take you to your Open WebUI instance. Click on yours to follow through.

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Sign Up Your Admin Account

Now that you have clicked on the Open WebUI button, you will be taken to the Open WebUI instance. You will see a screen like below:

Let's click on the `Get Started` button to start using Open WebUI.

Next, a form for you to sign up as the admin of your Open WebUI instance will be displayed.

Follow the instructions to create your user in your Open WebUI instance then click the `Create Admin Account` button.

The first user you registered will always be the Admin account.

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Chat Interface

Congrats! You have now successfully created your first user in Open WebUI. You will be taken to the chat interface.

You're in! Almost there, just a few more steps to go.

It’s still looks empty right? That’s because we haven’t set up the API keys yet. Let’s do that now.

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Setting Up Your OpenAI API Key

Do you remember the steps we took to create our own API key? Now is the time to use it!

In the top right corner, click on your profile icon and then click on the `Admin Panel` link.

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Registered Users

The next page by default will show you a list of the currently registered users, you. You can use this part of the Settings page to add/remove users as you like. For the purpose of this guide, we’re not going to do that now. Instead click on the Settings tab on the left part of the top navigation tabs.

Click on the tab section marked with the red rectangle to go to the settings page.

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General

You will be taken to the General section of the Admin Settings page. In here you can set up how new users are created. For the sake of security, the tip below will take you far.
We recommend to set the Enable New Sign Ups option to be disabled. Don’t forget to click on the Save button on the bottom right corner.

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Connections

This is where we set up the OpenAI API key. Click on the `Connections` link marked with the red rectangle.

This will take you to the Connections section of the Admin Settings page. In here you can set up the OpenAI API key.
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First Step

Paste your OpenAI API key into the area marked with the red rectangle.
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Second Step

Click on the Save button on the bottom right corner.
Now your Open WebUI instance is fully setup for text based conversations. You can now start chatting with an AI model or you can follow along to set up image generation and other features.

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Image Generation

Click on the Images link on your admin menu items.

OpenAI has models that can generate images from text prompts. You can use your OpenAI API key to access these models and generate images.
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First Step

Enable image generation by clicking on the checkbox marked with the red rectangle.
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Second Step

Paste your OpenAI API key into the area marked with the red rectangle.
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Third Step

On the Set Default Model field, you can choose between gpt-image-1 (flagship model), dall-e-3 or dall-e-2.
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Fourth Step

On the Set Image Size field, depending on the model you choose, the sizes will vary. To start with, type in 1024x1024.
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Fifth Step

Leave the Set Steps field as it is. The more steps you add, the better the results will be but the more expensive it will be.
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Sixth Step

Click on the Save button on the bottom right corner.

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Model Cards

For your benefit, here are the model cards for all of OpenAI’s image models:
  1. GPT Image 1
  2. Dall E 3
  3. Dall E 2

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Audio Generation

Click on the Audio link on your admin menu items.

OpenAI can help you do Speech To Text and Text To Speech. You can use your OpenAI API key to access these models and generate audio from text or generate text from audio.

The initial look of the Audio settings

As we follow the steps below, the Audio settings page will change its look to suit our needs.
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First Step

Change the Speech-to-Text Engine to OpenAI to display the OpenAI API key field.
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Second Step

Paste your OpenAI API key into the newly displayed field.
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Third Step

In the STT Model field, type in whisper-1 to use OpenAI’s Whisper model. Available models are whisper-1, gpt-4o-mini-transcribe and gpt-4o-transcribe.
4

Fourth Step

Change the Text-to-Speech Engine to OpenAI to display the OpenAI API key field.
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Fifth Step

Paste your OpenAI API key into the newly displayed field.
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Sixth Step

Click on the Save button on the bottom right corner.
Feel free to play around with the other settings. You can change the voice and the model as you like.

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Model Cards

For your benefit, here are the model cards for all of OpenAI’s TTS models:
  1. GPT-4o mini TTS
  2. TTS-1
  3. TTS-1 HD
And here are the model cards for all of OpenAI’s STT models:
  1. GPT-4o Transcribe
  2. GPT-4o mini Transcribe
  3. Whisper
Yes, you can let the AI to Google for more context.

Click on the `Web Search` link marked with the red rectangle.

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First Step

Turn on Web Search
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Second Step

In the Web Search Engine, from the drop down box, select searxng.
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Third Step

In the Searxng Query URL, SleekChat has already provided you a SearxNG instance, you can use that by entering https://searxng.sleekchat.net
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Fourth Step

Leave the other fields as they are unless you are feeling adventurous, it’s fine.
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Fifth Step

Click on the Save button on the bottom right corner.

The final look of the Web Search settings

If you start a new chat now, you will see a Web Search button on your text input field. Click on that to let the AI search the web for more context.