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Espnet alternatives for AI agents.

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End-to-End Speech Processing Toolkit

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#1

Speechbrain

Similarity 140Trust 93Excellent 100

A PyTorch-based Speech Toolkit

12K starsJun 15, 2026 pushmedia-automationPythonSpeech
$ npx skills add speechbrain/speechbrain
#2

Lhotse

Similarity 135Trust 91Excellent 100

Tools for handling multimodal data in machine learning projects.

1.1K starsJun 22, 2026 pushmedia-automationPythonSpeech
$ npx skills add lhotse-speech/lhotse
#3

Faster Whisper

Similarity 132Trust 89Excellent 99

Faster Whisper transcription with CTranslate2

24K starsNov 19, 2025 pushmedia-automationPythonSpeech
$ npx skills add SYSTRAN/faster-whisper
#4

Wav2letter

Similarity 130Trust 85Excellent 95

Facebook AI Research's Automatic Speech Recognition Toolkit

6.4K starsJan 12, 2026 pushmedia-automationC++Speech
$ npx skills add flashlight/wav2letter
#5

Automatic Speech Recognition

Similarity 130Trust 81Strong 75

End-to-end Automatic Speech Recognition for Madarian and English in Tensorflow

2.8K starsMar 24, 2023 pushmedia-automationPythonSpeech
$ npx skills add zzw922cn/Automatic_Speech_Recognition
#6

Espresso

Similarity 130Trust 73Needs review 51

Espresso: A Fast End-to-End Neural Speech Recognition Toolkit

939 starsSep 4, 2024 pushmedia-automationPythonSpeech
$ npx skills add freewym/espresso
#7

Wenet

Similarity 130Trust 92Excellent 100

Production First and Production Ready End-to-End Speech Recognition Toolkit

5.1K starsJun 15, 2026 pushmedia-automationPythonSpeech
$ npx skills add wenet-e2e/wenet
#8

Lingvo

Similarity 129Trust 91Excellent 100

Lingvo

2.9K starsJun 22, 2026 pushmedia-automationPythonSpeech
$ npx skills add tensorflow/lingvo
#9

Pytorch Kaldi

Similarity 129Trust 80Promising 69

pytorch-kaldi is a project for developing state-of-the-art DNN/RNN hybrid speech recognition systems. The DNN part is managed by pytorch, while feature extraction, label computation, and decoding are performed with the kaldi toolkit.

2.4K starsMar 14, 2022 pushmedia-automationPythonSpeech
$ npx skills add mravanelli/pytorch-kaldi
#10

Mlx Tune

Similarity 127Trust 90Excellent 100

Fine-tune LLMs on your Mac with Apple Silicon. SFT, DPO, GRPO, Vision, TTS, STT, Embedding, and OCR fine-tuning — natively on MLX. Unsloth-compatible API.

1.3K starsMay 31, 2026 pushmedia-automationPythonSpeech
$ npx skills add ARahim3/mlx-tune
#11

MASR

Similarity 127Trust 81Promising 68

Pytorch实现的流式与非流式的自动语音识别框架,同时兼容在线和离线识别,目前支持Conformer、Squeezeformer、DeepSpeech2模型,支持多种数据增强方法。

723 starsDec 17, 2025 pushmedia-automationPythonSpeech
$ npx skills add yeyupiaoling/MASR
#12

MockingBird

Similarity 127Trust 87Excellent 100

🚀Clone a voice in 5 seconds to generate arbitrary speech in real-time

37K starsMar 3, 2026 pushmedia-automationPythonVoice
$ npx skills add babysor/MockingBird
#13

Vosk API

Similarity 126Trust 93Excellent 100

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

15K starsJun 4, 2026 pushmedia-automationJupyter NotebookSpeech
$ npx skills add alphacep/vosk-api
#14

Openvino

Similarity 126Trust 93Excellent 100

OpenVINO™ is an open source toolkit for optimizing and deploying AI inference

10K starsJun 23, 2026 pushmedia-automationC++Speech
$ npx skills add openvinotoolkit/openvino
#15

Conformer

Similarity 125Trust 89Excellent 92

[Unofficial] PyTorch implementation of "Conformer: Convolution-augmented Transformer for Speech Recognition" (INTERSPEECH 2020)

1.1K starsJan 5, 2026 pushmedia-automationPythonSpeech
$ npx skills add sooftware/conformer
#16

WhisperX

Similarity 125Trust 95Excellent 100

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

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

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