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Espresso alternatives for AI agents.

Compare similar skills by workflow fit, trust score, quality, GitHub adoption, maintenance, and install readiness.

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

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#1

Sherpa

Similarity 134Trust 86Excellent 87

Speech-to-text server framework with next-gen Kaldi

940 starsJun 16, 2026 pushmedia-automationC++Speech
$ npx skills add k2-fsa/sherpa
#2

Allosaurus

Similarity 131Trust 77Promising 55

Allosaurus is a pretrained universal phone recognizer for more than 2000 languages

731 starsApr 26, 2024 pushmedia-automationPythonSpeech
$ npx skills add xinjli/allosaurus
#3

Openspeech

Similarity 131Trust 77Promising 55

Open-Source Toolkit for End-to-End Speech Recognition leveraging PyTorch-Lightning and Hydra.

717 starsOct 23, 2023 pushmedia-automationPythonSpeech
$ npx skills add openspeech-team/openspeech
#4

SpecAugment

Similarity 131Trust 77Needs review 54

A Implementation of SpecAugment with Tensorflow & Pytorch, introduced by Google Brain

654 starsApr 5, 2022 pushmedia-automationPythonSpeech
$ npx skills add DemisEom/SpecAugment
#5

Local Talking Llm

Similarity 130Trust 84Strong 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
#6

Leaderboard

Similarity 129Trust 76Needs review 49

SpeechIO Leaderboard: a large, robust, comprehensive, benchmarking platform for Automatic Speech Recognition.

545 starsMar 29, 2025 pushmedia-automationPythonSpeech
$ npx skills add SpeechColab/Leaderboard
#7

GigaAM

Similarity 129Trust 84Strong 79

Foundational Model for Speech Recognition Tasks

619 starsApr 15, 2026 pushmedia-automationPythonSpeech
$ npx skills add salute-developers/GigaAM
#8

Whisper Playground

Similarity 127Trust 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
#9

MASR

Similarity 127Trust 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
#10

Speechpy

Similarity 124Trust 78Promising 56

:speech_balloon: SpeechPy - A Library for Speech Processing and Recognition: http://speechpy.readthedocs.io/en/latest/

883 starsDec 15, 2024 pushmedia-automationPythonSpeech
$ npx skills add astorfi/speechpy
#11

Stephanie Va

Similarity 123Trust 77Promising 55

Stephanie is an open-source platform built specifically for voice-controlled applications as well as to automate daily tasks imitating much of an virtual assistant's work.

797 starsJan 20, 2019 pushmedia-automationPythonSpeech
$ npx skills add SlapBot/stephanie-va
#12

Adapt

Similarity 123Trust 77Promising 55

Adapt Intent Parser

720 starsJul 21, 2024 pushmedia-automationPythonSpeech
$ npx skills add MycroftAI/adapt
#13

Whisper Mic

Similarity 123Trust 76Promising 55

Project that allows one to use a microphone with OpenAI whisper.

789 starsJul 4, 2024 pushmedia-automationPythonSpeech
$ npx skills add mallorbc/whisper_mic
#14

Chinese Text Normalization

Similarity 123Trust 75Promising 55

Chinese text normalization for speech processing

732 starsMar 18, 2023 pushmedia-automationPythonSpeech
$ npx skills add speechio/chinese_text_normalization
#15

Kospeech

Similarity 123Trust 77Needs review 54

Open-Source Toolkit for End-to-End Korean Automatic Speech Recognition leveraging PyTorch and Hydra.

637 starsMay 27, 2023 pushmedia-automationPythonSpeech
$ npx skills add sooftware/kospeech
#16

Cheetah

Similarity 123Trust 86Excellent 85

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

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

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