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Sherpa Ncnn alternatives for AI agents.

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Sherpa Ncnn

Real-time speech recognition and voice activity detection (VAD) using next-gen Kaldi with ncnn without Internet connection. Support iOS, Android, Linux, macOS, Windows, Raspberry Pi, VisionFive2, LicheePi4A etc.

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#1

Sherpa

Similarity 139Trust 84Excellent 87

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

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

WhisperX

Similarity 135Trust 95Excellent 100

WhisperX: Automatic Speech Recognition with Word-level Timestamps (& Diarization)

23K starsJun 3, 2026 pushmedia-automationPythonSpeech
$ npx skills add m-bain/whisperX
#3

Sherpa Onnx

Similarity 134Trust 95Excellent 100

Speech-to-text, text-to-speech, speaker diarization, speech enhancement, source separation, and VAD using next-gen Kaldi with onnxruntime without Internet connection. Support embedded systems, Android, iOS, HarmonyOS, Raspberry Pi, RISC-V, RK NPU, Axera NPU, Ascend NPU, x86_64 servers, websocket server/client, support 12 programming languages

13K starsJun 18, 2026 pushmedia-automationC++Voice
$ npx skills add k2-fsa/sherpa-onnx
#4

Pocketsphinx

Similarity 131Trust 87Excellent 100

A small speech recognizer

4.3K starsJun 22, 2026 pushmedia-automationCSpeech
$ npx skills add cmusphinx/pocketsphinx
#5

Wav2letter

Similarity 128Trust 85Excellent 95

Facebook AI Research's Automatic Speech Recognition Toolkit

6.4K starsJan 12, 2026 pushmedia-automationC++Speech
$ npx skills add flashlight/wav2letter
#6

Dsnote

Similarity 128Trust 92Excellent 100

Speech Note Linux app. Note taking, reading and translating with offline Speech to Text, Text to Speech and Machine translation.

1.5K starsJun 12, 2026 pushmedia-automationC++Speech
$ npx skills add mkiol/dsnote
#7

Supertonic

Similarity 128Trust 92Excellent 100

Lightning-Fast, On-Device, Multilingual TTS — running natively via ONNX.

12K starsMay 22, 2026 pushmedia-automationSwiftVoice
$ npx skills add supertone-inc/supertonic
#8

Whisper Asr Webservice

Similarity 128Trust 83Excellent 89

OpenAI Whisper ASR Webservice API

3.3K starsNov 23, 2025 pushmedia-automationPythonSpeech
$ npx skills add ahmetoner/whisper-asr-webservice
#9

PaddleSpeech

Similarity 126Trust 95Excellent 100

Easy-to-use Speech Toolkit including Self-Supervised Learning model, SOTA/Streaming ASR with punctuation, Streaming TTS with text frontend, Speaker Verification System, End-to-End Speech Translation and Keyword Spotting. Won NAACL2022 Best Demo Award.

13K starsJun 21, 2026 pushmedia-automationPythonSpeech
$ npx skills add PaddlePaddle/PaddleSpeech
#10

Vosk API

Similarity 126Trust 93Excellent 100

Offline speech recognition API for Android, iOS, Raspberry Pi and servers with Python, Java, C# and Node

15K starsJun 4, 2026 pushmedia-automationJupyter NotebookSpeech
$ npx skills add alphacep/vosk-api
#11

Vosk Server

Similarity 126Trust 88Strong 84

WebSocket, gRPC and WebRTC speech recognition server based on Vosk and Kaldi libraries

1.3K starsJul 25, 2025 pushmedia-automationPythonSpeech
$ npx skills add alphacep/vosk-server
#12

Speechbrain

Similarity 126Trust 93Excellent 100

A PyTorch-based Speech Toolkit

12K starsJun 15, 2026 pushmedia-automationPythonSpeech
$ npx skills add speechbrain/speechbrain
#13

Whisper.Cpp

Similarity 126Trust 93Excellent 100

Port of OpenAI's Whisper model in C/C++

51K starsJun 22, 2026 pushmedia-automationC++Speech
$ npx skills add ggml-org/whisper.cpp
#14

Speech Recognition

Similarity 125Trust 94Excellent 100

Speech recognition module for Python, supporting several engines and APIs, online and offline.

9.0K starsJun 16, 2026 pushmedia-automationPythonSpeech
$ npx skills add Uberi/speech_recognition
#15

ASRT SpeechRecognition

Similarity 125Trust 91Excellent 100

A Deep-Learning-Based Chinese Speech Recognition System 基于深度学习的中文语音识别系统

8.4K starsApr 10, 2026 pushmedia-automationPythonSpeech
$ npx skills add nl8590687/ASRT_SpeechRecognition
#16

SenseVoice

Similarity 125Trust 90Excellent 100

Multilingual speech understanding: ASR + emotion recognition + audio event detection. 50+ languages, 15x faster than Whisper, non-autoregressive.

8.6K starsJun 22, 2026 pushmedia-automationCSpeech
$ npx skills add FunAudioLLM/SenseVoice

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