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Speech to text

Transcribe recordings, meetings and dictation with speech recognition models on your own hardware.

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Speech to text
ToolStarsLicenceTermsSelf-hostedLanguageLatestLast push
Whisper110kMITOpen sourceYesPythonv202506252026-08-31
whisper.cpp54kMITOpen sourceYesC++v1.9.42026-10-06
Handy33kMITOpen sourceYesRustv0.9.82026-10-05
Meetily31kMITOpen sourceYesRustv0.4.12026-09-15
faster-whisper26kMITOpen sourceYesPythonv1.2.12026-10-06
WhisperX24kBSD-2-ClauseOpen sourceYesPythonv3.8.62026-09-26
Buzz22kMITOpen sourceYesPythonv1.4.52026-10-02
Vosk15kApache-2.0Open sourceYesJupyter Notebookv0.3.502026-08-09
Vibe7.7kMITOpen sourceYesTypeScriptv3.2.22026-10-06
WhisperLive4.3kMITOpen sourceYesPythonv0.10.02026-09-10
Speaches3.7kMITOpen sourceYesPythonv0.9.0-rc.32026-10-05
Scriberr3.1kMITOpen sourceYesGov1.2.02026-09-20
Whishper3.1kAGPL-3.0Open sourceYesSveltev3.1.42026-07-31

13 tools

Whisper

Robust Speech Recognition via Large-Scale Weak Supervision

Language
Python
Licence
MIT
Stars
110k
Latest
v20250625
Last push
2026-08-31
Handy

A free, open source, and extensible speech-to-text application that works completely offline.

Language
Rust
Licence
MIT
Stars
33k
Latest
v0.9.8
Last push
2026-10-05
Meetily

Privacy first, AI meeting assistant with 4x faster Parakeet/Whisper live transcription, speaker diarization, and Ollama summarization built on Rust. 100% local processing. no cloud required. Meetily (Meetly Ai - https://meetily.ai) is the #1 Self-hosted, Open-source Ai meeting note taker for macOS & Windows. Understand How to write meeting minutes

Language
Rust
Licence
MIT
Stars
31k
Latest
v0.4.1
Last push
2026-09-15
WhisperX

WhisperX: Automatic Speech Recognition with Word-level Timestamps (& Diarization)

Language
Python
Licence
BSD-2-Clause
Stars
24k
Latest
v3.8.6
Last push
2026-09-26
Buzz

Buzz transcribes and translates audio offline on your personal computer. Powered by OpenAI's Whisper.

Language
Python
Licence
MIT
Stars
22k
Latest
v1.4.5
Last push
2026-10-02
Vosk

Offline speech recognition API for Android, iOS, Raspberry Pi and servers with Python, Java, C# and Node

Language
Jupyter Notebook
Licence
Apache-2.0
Stars
15k
Latest
v0.3.50
Last push
2026-08-09
Scriberr

Self-hosted AI audio transcription

Language
Go
Licence
MIT
Stars
3.1k
Latest
v1.2.0
Last push
2026-09-20
Whishper

Transcribe any audio to text, translate and edit subtitles 100% locally with a web UI. Powered by whisper models!

Language
Svelte
Licence
AGPL-3.0
Stars
3.1k
Latest
v3.1.4
Last push
2026-07-31

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