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Open-source speech recognition toolkit for training, inference, streaming ASR, VAD, punctuation, speaker diarization pipelines, and OpenAI-compatible/MCP serving.

Open-source SenseVoiceSmall model for Mandarin, Cantonese, English, Japanese, and Korean ASR, language ID, emotion recognition, and audio event detection.

FunASR-powered video transcription, subtitle generation, and LLM-assisted clipping tool with a local Gradio UI.

Fun-ASR speech recognition models, with native Hugging Face Transformers support for Fun-ASR-Nano and separate FunASR, vLLM and llama.cpp deployment paths.

Гига Писарь: бесплатная локальная русская диктовка для macOS на GigaAM v3. Зажал правый ⌘, сказал, отпустил. Giga Pisar: offline Russian dictation for Mac

Voice dictation to keyboard on Linux — cloud (Groq/OpenAI Whisper) or fully offline (Parakeet DE on CPU, no GPU, no API key)

听记 (Tingji) — 本地会议录音转写与纪要，FunASR + LLM，数据不出本机。Local meeting transcription & minutes, runs entirely offline.

Распознавание русской речи в командной строке: GigaAM v3, ONNX int8, на процессоре, без интернета

VoxMinutes — free, local-first meeting assistant for Windows. Records system audio + mic together with live transcription, 13-language translation, speaker diarisation with one-click renaming, desktop subtitles & AI meeting notes. Runs fully offline on local models; optional cloud models are pay-as-you-go. AGPL-3.0.

Terminal voice-to-text TUI for Apple Silicon. Qwen3-ASR-1.7B or live-streaming Confucius4-R2T2 on the Apple GPU via MLX (mlx-speech). Fully local, no PyTorch.

Free, open-source offline dictation and transcription for macOS. Dictate into any app, transcribe calls and files on-device, and give Claude Code, Codex and Cursor ears via a local MCP server.

Lamitype (formerly HushType): free, privacy-first voice-to-text for macOS. Traditional-Chinese-first, memory-light. Runs Qwen3-ASR locally on Apple Silicon via MLX; optional cloud lane straight to your provider. 免費開源的 Mac 繁體中文語音輸入，本機執行 Qwen3-ASR。

Local-first dictation, voice notes & meeting memory for macOS — ⌘B anywhere, live transcript, on-device Gemma 4 / Parakeet models, zero cloud. MIT.

Talk. Ink. Push-to-talk dictation for macOS, 100% on-device. Pick your model: Qwen3-ASR, NVIDIA Nemotron or Voxtral, all via Apple MLX.

🎙️ The open-source AI Voice-to-Text & Universal Speech Studio. Real-time dictation, 48kHz Web Audio DSP noise cancellation, 2-Way Babel Live Translator with authentic Urdu/multilingual Neural TTS, Executive MoM PDF generator, Studio EQ mastering, and 100% offline audio tools. Powered by Gemini 2.0, GPT-4o & Claude 3.7.

Free, open-source macOS menu bar dictation that never leaves your Mac. Fast on-device speech-to-text (voice typing) for German & English. 100% offline & private alternative to Wispr Flow, Superwhisper, and MacWhisper.

Free Wispr Flow & Superwhisper alternative. Native macOS voice dictation & speech-to-text. Powered by Sber GigaAM v3 & Whisper. Instant direct input under cursor via ⌥+Space, push-to-talk, offline transcription of any media files.

Local voice dictation for Windows — what Hex is on macOS. Hold a hotkey, speak, release: the text lands at your cursor. Parakeet TDT v3, offline, ~0.2 s.

Voice dictation for the browser — free, private, MIT. Dictate into any web page, or use the pop-out to dictate for any app on your machine.

Fast, accurate, on-device dictation for the Mac. Hold a key, speak, let go, and your words land at the cursor. Free and open source.