Alternatives

Sherpa alternatives for AI agents.

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

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

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#1

Espresso

Similarity 124Trust 74Needs review 51

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

939 starsSep 4, 2024 pushmedia-automationPythonSpeech
$ npx skills add freewym/espresso
#2

Eesen

Similarity 124Trust 76Promising 56

The official repository of the Eesen project

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

CTCWordBeamSearch

Similarity 120Trust 85Strong 75

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

577 starsJan 31, 2026 pushmedia-automationC++Speech
$ npx skills add githubharald/CTCWordBeamSearch
#5

Whisper Android

Similarity 120Trust 82Strong 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
#6

Speech Swift

Similarity 118Trust 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
#7

Allosaurus

Similarity 117Trust 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
#8

Openspeech

Similarity 117Trust 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
#9

Chinese Text Normalization

Similarity 117Trust 75Promising 55

Chinese text normalization for speech processing

732 starsMar 18, 2023 pushmedia-automationPythonSpeech
$ npx skills add speechio/chinese_text_normalization
#10

SpecAugment

Similarity 117Trust 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
#11

Cheetah

Similarity 117Trust 86Excellent 85

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

665 starsJun 10, 2026 pushmedia-automationPythonSpeech
$ npx skills add Picovoice/cheetah
#12

FireRedASR2S

Similarity 116Trust 87Excellent 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
#13

Neural Sp

Similarity 116Trust 75Needs review 54

End-to-end ASR/LM implementation with PyTorch

594 starsAug 30, 2021 pushmedia-automationPythonSpeech
$ npx skills add hirofumi0810/neural_sp
#14

Audio AI Hub

Similarity 116Trust 84Strong 82

The hub for audio AI research: papers, open models, benchmarks & datasets across audio LLMs, speech recognition, TTS, music & audio generation.

933 starsJun 15, 2026 pushmedia-automationPythonSpeech
$ npx skills add BinWang28/audio-ai-hub
#15

Local Talking Llm

Similarity 116Trust 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
#16

Cn2an

Similarity 116Trust 84Strong 80

📦 快速转化「中文数字」和「阿拉伯数字」~ (最新特性:分数,日期、温度等转化)

762 starsApr 23, 2026 pushmedia-automationPythonSpeech
$ npx skills add Ailln/cn2an

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