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Faster Whisper alternatives for AI agents.

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Faster Whisper transcription with CTranslate2

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#1

Whisper.Cpp

Similarity 160Trust 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
#2

WhisperX

Similarity 141Trust 95Excellent 100

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

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

Whisper Playground

Similarity 135Trust 81Promising 68

Build real time speech2text web apps using OpenAI's Whisper https://openai.com/blog/whisper/

833 starsSep 12, 2025 pushmedia-automationPythonSpeech
$ npx skills add saharmor/whisper-playground
#4

AI Waifu Vtuber

Similarity 134Trust 87Excellent 97

AI Vtuber for Streaming on Youtube/Twitch

1.1K starsMay 31, 2026 pushmedia-automationPythonSpeech
$ npx skills add ardha27/AI-Waifu-Vtuber
#5

Whisper Ctranslate2

Similarity 134Trust 88Excellent 93

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
#6

Whisper Jax

Similarity 134Trust 81Strong 77

JAX implementation of OpenAI's Whisper model for up to 70x speed-up on TPU.

4.7K starsApr 3, 2024 pushmedia-automationJupyter NotebookSpeech
$ npx skills add sanchit-gandhi/whisper-jax
#7

Speechbrain

Similarity 132Trust 93Excellent 100

A PyTorch-based Speech Toolkit

12K starsJun 15, 2026 pushmedia-automationPythonSpeech
$ npx skills add speechbrain/speechbrain
#8

Whisper Diarization

Similarity 132Trust 89Excellent 99

Automatic Speech Recognition with Speaker Diarization based on OpenAI Whisper

5.6K starsFeb 23, 2026 pushmedia-automationJupyter NotebookSpeech
$ npx skills add MahmoudAshraf97/whisper-diarization
#9

Speech Recognition

Similarity 131Trust 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
#10

Espnet

Similarity 131Trust 92Excellent 100

End-to-End Speech Processing Toolkit

9.9K starsJun 23, 2026 pushmedia-automationPythonSpeech
$ npx skills add espnet/espnet
#11

Mlx Audio

Similarity 131Trust 94Excellent 100

A text-to-speech (TTS), speech-to-text (STT) and speech-to-speech (STS) library built on Apple's MLX framework, providing efficient speech analysis on Apple Silicon.

7.4K starsJun 19, 2026 pushmedia-automationPythonSpeech
$ npx skills add Blaizzy/mlx-audio
#12

Voice Pro

Similarity 130Trust 91Excellent 95

Gradio WebUI for creators and developers, featuring key TTS (Edge-TTS, kokoro) and zero-shot Voice Cloning (E2 & F5-TTS, CosyVoice), with Whisper audio processing, YouTube download, Demucs vocal isolation, and multilingual translation.

11K starsDec 5, 2025 pushmedia-automationPythonSpeech
$ npx skills add abus-aikorea/voice-pro
#13

Wenet

Similarity 130Trust 92Excellent 100

Production First and Production Ready End-to-End Speech Recognition Toolkit

5.1K starsJun 15, 2026 pushmedia-automationPythonSpeech
$ npx skills add wenet-e2e/wenet
#14

Stt

Similarity 129Trust 88Excellent 98

Voice Recognition to Text Tool / 一个离线运行的本地音视频转字幕工具,输出json、srt字幕、纯文字格式

4.6K starsJan 22, 2026 pushmedia-automationPythonSpeech
$ npx skills add jianchang512/stt
#15

Tensorflow Speech Recognition

Similarity 128Trust 79Promising 69

🎙Speech recognition using the tensorflow deep learning framework, sequence-to-sequence neural networks

2.2K starsJan 17, 2024 pushmedia-automationPythonSpeech
$ npx skills add pannous/tensorflow-speech-recognition
#16

Whisper Writer

Similarity 128Trust 81Strong 71

💬📝 A small dictation app using OpenAI's Whisper speech recognition model.

1.1K starsAug 24, 2024 pushmedia-automationPythonSpeech
$ npx skills add savbell/whisper-writer

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