Alternatives

VAD alternatives for AI agents.

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

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VAD

Voice activity detection (VAD) toolkit including DNN, bDNN, LSTM and ACAM based VAD. We also provide our directly recorded dataset.

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#1

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
#2

MASR

Similarity 113Trust 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
#3

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
#4

Sherpa

Similarity 110Trust 86Excellent 87

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

940 starsJun 16, 2026 pushmedia-automationC++Speech
$ npx skills add k2-fsa/sherpa
#5

Whisper.Net

Similarity 110Trust 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
#6

TheWhisper

Similarity 110Trust 86Excellent 87

Optimized Whisper models for streaming and on-device use

888 starsJun 15, 2026 pushmedia-automationPythonSpeech
$ npx skills add TheStageAI/TheWhisper
#7

TTS Voice Wizard

Similarity 109Trust 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
#8

Voxtype

Similarity 109Trust 86Excellent 87

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

844 starsJun 13, 2026 pushmedia-automationRustSpeech
$ npx skills add peteonrails/voxtype
#9

Sonus

Similarity 109Trust 80Needs review 54

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

638 starsJul 2, 2024 pushmedia-automationJavaScriptSpeech
$ npx skills add evancohen/sonus
#10

NotelyVoice

Similarity 109Trust 88Excellent 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
#11

Allosaurus

Similarity 109Trust 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
#12

Openspeech

Similarity 109Trust 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
#13

Whisper.Rn

Similarity 109Trust 86Excellent 86

React Native binding of whisper.cpp.

790 starsJun 2, 2026 pushmedia-automationC++Speech
$ npx skills add mybigday/whisper.rn
#14

Rhino

Similarity 109Trust 86Excellent 86

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

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

SpecAugment

Similarity 109Trust 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
#16

Cheetah

Similarity 109Trust 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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