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Pocketsphinx alternatives for AI agents.

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A small speech recognizer

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#1

WhisperX

Similarity 135Trust 95Excellent 100

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

23K starsJun 3, 2026 pushmedia-automationPythonSpeech
$ npx skills add m-bain/whisperX
#2

Speech Recognition

Similarity 133Trust 94Excellent 100

Speech recognition module for Python, supporting several engines and APIs, online and offline.

9.0K starsJun 16, 2026 pushmedia-automationPythonSpeech
$ npx skills add Uberi/speech_recognition
#3

Stt

Similarity 131Trust 88Excellent 98

Voice Recognition to Text Tool / 一个离线运行的本地音视频转字幕工具,输出json、srt字幕、纯文字格式

4.6K starsJan 22, 2026 pushmedia-automationPythonSpeech
$ npx skills add jianchang512/stt
#4

Julius

Similarity 130Trust 83Strong 73

Open-Source Large Vocabulary Continuous Speech Recognition Engine

1.9K starsJun 16, 2025 pushmedia-automationCSpeech
$ npx skills add julius-speech/julius
#5

Quillman

Similarity 129Trust 90Excellent 100

A voice chat app

1.2K starsMay 28, 2026 pushmedia-automationPythonSpeech
$ npx skills add modal-labs/quillman
#6

Irene Voice Assistant

Similarity 128Trust 89Excellent 97

Ирина - русский голосовой ассистент для работы оффлайн. Поддерживает скиллы через плагины.

1.1K starsJun 13, 2026 pushmedia-automationPythonSpeech
$ npx skills add janvarev/Irene-Voice-Assistant
#7

Whisper Ctranslate2

Similarity 128Trust 88Excellent 93

Whisper command line client compatible with original OpenAI client based on CTranslate2.

1.3K starsFeb 14, 2026 pushmedia-automationPythonSpeech
$ npx skills add Softcatala/whisper-ctranslate2
#8

Whisper.Cpp

Similarity 128Trust 93Excellent 100

Port of OpenAI's Whisper model in C/C++

51K starsJun 22, 2026 pushmedia-automationC++Speech
$ npx skills add ggml-org/whisper.cpp
#9

Sherpa Ncnn

Similarity 127Trust 88Excellent 86

Real-time speech recognition and voice activity detection (VAD) using next-gen Kaldi with ncnn without Internet connection. Support iOS, Android, Linux, macOS, Windows, Raspberry Pi, VisionFive2, LicheePi4A etc.

1.7K starsOct 20, 2025 pushmedia-automationC++Speech
$ npx skills add k2-fsa/sherpa-ncnn
#10

Distil Whisper

Similarity 126Trust 85Strong 77

Distilled variant of Whisper for speech recognition. 6x faster, 50% smaller, within 1% word error rate.

4.1K starsJan 8, 2025 pushmedia-automationPythonSpeech
$ npx skills add huggingface/distil-whisper
#11

ASRT SpeechRecognition

Similarity 125Trust 91Excellent 100

A Deep-Learning-Based Chinese Speech Recognition System 基于深度学习的中文语音识别系统

8.4K starsApr 10, 2026 pushmedia-automationPythonSpeech
$ npx skills add nl8590687/ASRT_SpeechRecognition
#12

Chenyme AAVT

Similarity 125Trust 83Strong 75

这是一个全自动(音频)视频翻译项目。利用Whisper识别声音,AI大模型翻译字幕,最后合并字幕视频,生成翻译后的视频。

3.1K starsApr 7, 2025 pushmedia-automationPythonSpeech
$ npx skills add chenyme/Chenyme-AAVT
#13

Espeak Ng

Similarity 125Trust 93Excellent 100

eSpeak NG is an open source speech synthesizer that supports more than hundred languages and accents.

6.6K starsApr 27, 2026 pushmedia-automationCVoice
$ npx skills add espeak-ng/espeak-ng
#14

Annyang

Similarity 125Trust 92Excellent 100

💬 Speech recognition for your site

6.8K starsJun 11, 2026 pushmedia-automationTypeScriptSpeech
$ npx skills add TalAter/annyang
#15

Local Talking Llm

Similarity 124Trust 82Strong 81

A talking LLM that runs on your own computer without needing the internet.

869 starsApr 4, 2026 pushmedia-automationPythonSpeech
$ npx skills add vndee/local-talking-llm
#16

Whisper Diarization

Similarity 124Trust 89Excellent 99

Automatic Speech Recognition with Speaker Diarization based on OpenAI Whisper

5.6K starsFeb 23, 2026 pushmedia-automationJupyter NotebookSpeech
$ npx skills add MahmoudAshraf97/whisper-diarization

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