Alternatives

Sonus alternatives for AI agents.

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:speech_balloon: /so.nus/ STT (speech to text) for Node with offline hotword detection

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#1

Vosk Browser

Similarity 126Trust 81Promising 66

A speech recognition library running in the browser thanks to a WebAssembly build of Vosk

519 starsDec 7, 2025 pushmedia-automationJavaScriptSpeech
$ npx skills add ccoreilly/vosk-browser
#2

Cheetah

Similarity 125Trust 86Excellent 85

On-device streaming speech-to-text engine powered by deep learning

665 starsJun 10, 2026 pushmedia-automationPythonSpeech
$ npx skills add Picovoice/cheetah
#3

MASR

Similarity 121Trust 83Promising 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
#4

Whisper.Net

Similarity 118Trust 86Excellent 87

Whisper.net. Speech to text made simple using Whisper Models

925 starsJun 14, 2026 pushmedia-automationC#Speech
$ npx skills add sandrohanea/whisper.net
#5

TheWhisper

Similarity 118Trust 86Excellent 87

Optimized Whisper models for streaming and on-device use

888 starsJun 15, 2026 pushmedia-automationPythonSpeech
$ npx skills add TheStageAI/TheWhisper
#6

TTS Voice Wizard

Similarity 117Trust 88Excellent 86

Speech to Text to Speech. Song now playing. Sends text as OSC messages to VRChat to display on avatar. (STTTS) (Speech to TTS) (VRC STT System) (VTuber TTS)

789 starsMay 28, 2026 pushmedia-automationC#Speech
$ npx skills add VRCWizard/TTS-Voice-Wizard
#7

Whisper.Unity

Similarity 117Trust 77Promising 55

Running speech to text model (whisper.cpp) in Unity3d on your local machine.

734 starsApr 17, 2025 pushmedia-automationC#Speech
$ npx skills add Macoron/whisper.unity
#8

Expo Speech Recognition

Similarity 116Trust 85Excellent 85

Speech Recognition for React Native Expo projects

637 starsJun 5, 2026 pushmedia-automationTypeScriptSpeech
$ npx skills add jamsch/expo-speech-recognition
#9

React Speech Recognition

Similarity 116Trust 77Promising 56

💬Speech recognition for your React app

840 starsJun 6, 2025 pushmedia-automationJavaScriptSpeech
$ npx skills add JamesBrill/react-speech-recognition
#10

Willow Inference Server

Similarity 114Trust 85Strong 74

Open source, local, and self-hosted highly optimized language inference server supporting ASR/STT, TTS, and LLM across WebRTC, REST, and WS

504 starsFeb 12, 2026 pushmedia-automationPythonSpeech
$ npx skills add toverainc/willow-inference-server
#11

PPASR

Similarity 113Trust 83Promising 69

基于PaddlePaddle实现端到端中文语音识别,从入门到实战,超简单的入门案例,超实用的企业项目。支持当前最流行的DeepSpeech2、Conformer、Squeezeformer模型

873 starsDec 17, 2025 pushmedia-automationPythonSpeech
$ npx skills add yeyupiaoling/PPASR
#12

Whisper Playground

Similarity 113Trust 83Promising 68

Build real time speech2text web apps using OpenAI's Whisper https://openai.com/blog/whisper/

833 starsSep 12, 2025 pushmedia-automationPythonSpeech
$ npx skills add saharmor/whisper-playground
#13

Dla

Similarity 113Trust 81Promising 68

Deep learning for audio processing

749 starsDec 15, 2025 pushmedia-automationJupyter NotebookSpeech
$ npx skills add markovka17/dla
#14

Chaplin

Similarity 113Trust 81Promising 68

A real-time silent speech recognition tool.

743 starsNov 2, 2025 pushmedia-automationPythonSpeech
$ npx skills add amanvirparhar/chaplin
#15

Mlx Audio Swift

Similarity 111Trust 86Excellent 86

A modular Swift SDK for audio processing with MLX on Apple Silicon

675 starsJun 14, 2026 pushmedia-automationSwiftVoice
$ npx skills add Blaizzy/mlx-audio-swift
#16

Speech Swift

Similarity 110Trust 88Excellent 87

AI speech toolkit for Apple Silicon — ASR, TTS, speech-to-speech, VAD, and diarization powered by MLX and CoreML

894 starsJun 14, 2026 pushmedia-automationSwiftSpeech
$ npx skills add soniqo/speech-swift

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