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CTCWordBeamSearch alternatives for AI agents.

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CTCWordBeamSearch

Connectionist Temporal Classification (CTC) decoder with dictionary and language model.

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#1

Sherpa

Similarity 124Trust 87Excellent 87

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

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

Whisper.Rn

Similarity 123Trust 87Excellent 86

React Native binding of whisper.cpp.

790 starsJun 2, 2026 pushmedia-automationC++Speech
$ npx skills add mybigday/whisper.rn
#3

Eesen

Similarity 123Trust 72Promising 56

The official repository of the Eesen project

835 starsMay 23, 2019 pushmedia-automationC++Speech
$ npx skills add srvk/eesen
#4

CTCDecoder

Similarity 123Trust 82Strong 77

Connectionist Temporal Classification (CTC) decoding algorithms: best path, beam search, lexicon search, prefix search, and token passing. Implemented in Python.

836 starsJan 31, 2026 pushmedia-automationPythonSpeech
$ npx skills add githubharald/CTCDecoder
#5

Neural Sp

Similarity 116Trust 72Needs review 54

End-to-end ASR/LM implementation with PyTorch

594 starsAug 30, 2021 pushmedia-automationPythonSpeech
$ npx skills add hirofumi0810/neural_sp
#6

NotelyVoice

Similarity 115Trust 89Excellent 86

A 100% private AI voice transcription app that converts speech to text in 100+ languages. Built with Compose Multiplatform for Android & iOS using Whisper AI - no cloud uploads, all processing happens on-device for complete privacy.

725 starsMay 19, 2026 pushmedia-automationC++Speech
$ npx skills add Notely-Voice/NotelyVoice
#7

Whisper Android

Similarity 113Trust 84Strong 76

Offline Speech Recognition with OpenAI Whisper and TensorFlow Lite for Android

669 starsMar 18, 2026 pushmedia-automationC++Speech
$ npx skills add vilassn/whisper_android
#8

Speech Swift

Similarity 110Trust 89Excellent 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
#9

Whisper.Net

Similarity 110Trust 87Excellent 87

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

925 starsJun 14, 2026 pushmedia-automationC#Speech
$ npx skills add sandrohanea/whisper.net
#10

TheWhisper

Similarity 110Trust 87Excellent 87

Optimized Whisper models for streaming and on-device use

888 starsJun 15, 2026 pushmedia-automationPythonSpeech
$ npx skills add TheStageAI/TheWhisper
#11

TTS Voice Wizard

Similarity 110Trust 89Excellent 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
#12

Voxtype

Similarity 110Trust 87Excellent 87

Voice-to-text with push-to-talk for Wayland compositors

844 starsJun 13, 2026 pushmedia-automationRustSpeech
$ npx skills add peteonrails/voxtype
#13

Hear

Similarity 109Trust 89Excellent 85

Command line interface for the built-in speech recognition and transcription capabilities in macOS.

661 starsMay 19, 2026 pushmedia-automationObjective-CSpeech
$ npx skills add sveinbjornt/hear
#14

Rhino

Similarity 109Trust 87Excellent 86

On-device Speech-to-Intent engine powered by deep learning

703 starsJun 16, 2026 pushmedia-automationPythonSpeech
$ npx skills add Picovoice/rhino
#15

FireRedASR2S

Similarity 109Trust 89Excellent 85

A SOTA Industrial-Grade All-in-One ASR system with ASR, VAD, LID, and Punc modules. FireRedASR2 supports Chinese (Mandarin, 20+ dialects/accents), English, code-switching, and both speech and singing ASR. FireRedVAD supports speech/singing/music in 100+ langs. FireRedLID supports 100+ langs and 20+ zh dialects. FireRedPunc supports zh and en.

551 starsJun 2, 2026 pushmedia-automationPythonSpeech
$ npx skills add FireRedTeam/FireRedASR2S
#16

Cheetah

Similarity 109Trust 87Excellent 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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