Open-source alternatives to AWS Transcribe

AWS Transcribe in the AI category. These are the open alternatives we recommend looking at.

whisper-large-v3

Speech recognition model from OpenAI that transcribes and translates speech in many languages. The model card lists Swedish support.

Apache-2.0Permissive

SaaS: YesClosed product: Yes

Deployment: transformers

whisper-large-v3-turbo

Faster, smaller version of Whisper large-v3 for transcription with slightly lower accuracy. Based on openai/whisper-large-v3. The model card lists Swedish support.

MITPermissive

SaaS: YesClosed product: Yes

Deployment: transformers

faster-whisper-large-v3

Whisper large-v3 converted to CTranslate2 format for faster transcription with faster-whisper. The model card lists Swedish support.

MITPermissive

SaaS: YesClosed product: Yes

Deployment: ctranslate2

distil-large-v3

Distilled version of Whisper that transcribes English faster with similar accuracy.

MITPermissive

SaaS: YesClosed product: Yes

Deployment: transformers

KB-Whisper (large)

Swedish speech-to-text model from the National Library of Sweden.

Apache-2.0Permissive

SaaS: YesClosed product: Yes

Deployment: Python, Docker

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