WhisperX
Whisper-based transcription with word-level timestamps and speaker separation.
BSD-2-ClausePermissive
SaaS: YesClosed product: Yes
- GitHub stars
- 24.3k
- Deployment
- Library
Open-source alternatives to Rev
Rev in the AI category. These are the open alternatives we recommend looking at.
Buzz
Desktop app that transcribes and translates audio offline with Whisper.
MITPermissive
SaaS: YesClosed product: Yes
- GitHub stars
- 21.8k
- Deployment
- Desktop
Whisper
Speech recognition model from OpenAI that transcribes and translates speech in many languages.
MITPermissive
SaaS: YesClosed product: Yes
- GitHub stars
- 110k
- Deployment
- Library
whisper.cpp
Fast C/C++ port of Whisper for transcription on ordinary computers, mobiles or embedded devices.
MITPermissive
SaaS: YesClosed product: Yes
- GitHub stars
- 54.1k
- Deployment
- Library
faster-whisper
Faster variant of Whisper built on CTranslate2, with lower memory use.
MITPermissive
SaaS: YesClosed product: Yes
- GitHub stars
- 25.7k
- Deployment
- Library
FunASR
Speech recognition toolkit: training, streaming recognition, punctuation and speaker diarization.
MITPermissive
SaaS: YesClosed product: Yes
- GitHub stars
- 20.6k
- Deployment
- Library
NVIDIA NeMo Speech
NVIDIA's framework for training and running speech AI such as speech recognition and text to speech.
Apache-2.0Permissive
SaaS: YesClosed product: Yes
- GitHub stars
- 18.5k
- Deployment
- Library
sherpa-onnx
Speech to text, text to speech and speaker diarization that run offline, including on mobile and embedded devices.
Apache-2.0Permissive
SaaS: YesClosed product: Yes
- GitHub stars
- 15.1k
- Deployment
- Library
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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