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OpenVINO™ is an open source toolkit for optimizing and deploying AI inference
10K starsJun 23, 2026 pushmedia-automationC++Speech
$ npx skills add openvinotoolkit/openvinoAlternatives
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OBS plugin for local speech recognition and captioning using AI
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Port of OpenAI's Whisper model in C/C++
51K starsJun 22, 2026 pushmedia-automationC++Speech
$ npx skills add ggml-org/whisper.cpp#3
Tools for handling multimodal data in machine learning projects.
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$ npx skills add lhotse-speech/lhotse#4
A voice chat app
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$ npx skills add modal-labs/quillman#5
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$ npx skills add flashlight/wav2letter#6
Transcribe any audio to text, translate and edit subtitles 100% locally with a web UI. Powered by whisper models!
3.0K starsAug 15, 2025 pushmedia-automationSvelteSpeech
$ npx skills add pluja/whishper#7
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#8
Whisper command line client compatible with original OpenAI client based on CTranslate2.
1.3K starsFeb 14, 2026 pushmedia-automationPythonSpeech
$ npx skills add Softcatala/whisper-ctranslate2#9
OpenAI Whisper ASR Webservice API
3.3K starsNov 23, 2025 pushmedia-automationPythonSpeech
$ npx skills add ahmetoner/whisper-asr-webservice#10
WhisperX: Automatic Speech Recognition with Word-level Timestamps (& Diarization)
23K starsJun 3, 2026 pushmedia-automationPythonSpeech
$ npx skills add m-bain/whisperX#11
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#12
Offline speech recognition API for Android, iOS, Raspberry Pi and servers with Python, Java, C# and Node
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$ npx skills add alphacep/vosk-api#13
Faster Whisper transcription with CTranslate2
24K starsNov 19, 2025 pushmedia-automationPythonSpeech
$ npx skills add SYSTRAN/faster-whisper#14
A PyTorch-based Speech Toolkit
12K starsJun 15, 2026 pushmedia-automationPythonSpeech
$ npx skills add speechbrain/speechbrain#15
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#16
End-to-End Speech Processing Toolkit
9.9K starsJun 23, 2026 pushmedia-automationPythonSpeech
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