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TheWhisper alternatives for AI agents.

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#1

Speech Swift

Similarity 134Trust 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
#2

Cheetah

Similarity 123Trust 86Excellent 85

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

665 starsJun 10, 2026 pushmedia-automationPythonSpeech
$ npx skills add Picovoice/cheetah
#3

Willow Inference Server

Similarity 120Trust 85Strong 74

Open source, local, and self-hosted highly optimized language inference server supporting ASR/STT, TTS, and LLM across WebRTC, REST, and WS

504 starsFeb 12, 2026 pushmedia-automationPythonSpeech
$ npx skills add toverainc/willow-inference-server
#4

Whisper Playground

Similarity 119Trust 83Promising 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
#5

MASR

Similarity 119Trust 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
#6

Chaplin

Similarity 119Trust 81Promising 68

A real-time silent speech recognition tool.

743 starsNov 2, 2025 pushmedia-automationPythonSpeech
$ npx skills add amanvirparhar/chaplin
#7

Whisper.Net

Similarity 118Trust 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
#8

TTS Voice Wizard

Similarity 117Trust 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
#9

Expo Speech Recognition

Similarity 116Trust 85Excellent 85

Speech Recognition for React Native Expo projects

637 starsJun 5, 2026 pushmedia-automationTypeScriptSpeech
$ npx skills add jamsch/expo-speech-recognition
#10

Stephanie Va

Similarity 115Trust 77Promising 55

Stephanie is an open-source platform built specifically for voice-controlled applications as well as to automate daily tasks imitating much of an virtual assistant's work.

797 starsJan 20, 2019 pushmedia-automationPythonSpeech
$ npx skills add SlapBot/stephanie-va
#11

Adapt

Similarity 115Trust 77Promising 55

Adapt Intent Parser

720 starsJul 21, 2024 pushmedia-automationPythonSpeech
$ npx skills add MycroftAI/adapt
#12

Whisper Mic

Similarity 115Trust 76Promising 55

Project that allows one to use a microphone with OpenAI whisper.

789 starsJul 4, 2024 pushmedia-automationPythonSpeech
$ npx skills add mallorbc/whisper_mic
#13

Rhino

Similarity 115Trust 86Excellent 86

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

703 starsJun 16, 2026 pushmedia-automationPythonSpeech
$ npx skills add Picovoice/rhino
#14

FireRedASR2S

Similarity 114Trust 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
#15

Audio AI Hub

Similarity 114Trust 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
#16

Local Talking Llm

Similarity 114Trust 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

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