Offline Speech-to-Text and Transcription

VoiceStudio is a local AI voice studio for creators who need speech generation and audio production without uploading their recordings. It combines voice creation, video dubbing and longer spoken projects in one application.

SpeechBrain is a toolkit for researchers and developers building speech assistants, transcription systems and conversational AI. It provides pretrained models and training recipes for adapting speech, audio and text models to your own data.

Seamless Communication is Meta's family of AI models for developers and researchers building multilingual speech applications. It covers translation and transcription, with dedicated models for conversations and expressive speech.

Whispering Tiger creates live transcripts and translations from audio on your computer for VRChat conversations and streaming captions. It can also read text in game images, so spoken dialogue and visible text can feed into the same translation workflow.

Whisper Mate is a local-first transcription app for people who need text from recordings, calls or audio playing on their Mac. It brings transcription and subtitle work into one editor, with media processing that can stay on the Mac.

RealtimeSTT is a Python library for developers building voice assistants, dictation tools and apps that turn live audio into text. It can show text while someone speaks and produce a final transcript when they finish.

Whisper is an open source speech recognition model for transcribing recordings on your own hardware. It's for developers building voice features and people working with multilingual audio.

PaddleSpeech is a speech and audio toolkit for developers and researchers building applications on their own machines or servers. Built on PaddlePaddle, it supports pretrained models alongside training and evaluation workflows.

Scribr is an Android app for turning speech into text as you speak. It's aimed at people who want to capture meetings, record ideas or write notes without typing.

GPT-SoVITS is a local voice cloning and text-to-speech tool for people creating speech in a custom voice. Its web interface covers speech generation, voice training and preparation of audio datasets.

KubeAI is a Kubernetes operator for teams serving AI models on their own infrastructure or cloud clusters. It manages model servers and adjusts capacity to demand, including starting models from zero running replicas.

Speech AI Forge is a self-hosted text-to-speech app for people making spoken audio or adding speech generation to their software. It brings several speech models into one Gradio web interface and also provides a separate API server.

Transcribro lets Android users dictate text with speech recognition running on their device. It supports English only and can also provide transcription to compatible apps.

Anarlog, formerly Hyprnote, is a desktop AI meeting notetaker for people who want to keep sensitive conversations on their own hardware. It's an open-source Granola alternative that combines personal notes with meeting transcripts.

Riffado turns recordings from Plaud Note, Note Pro, and NotePin devices into searchable transcripts and summaries. It's for recorder owners who want control over AI processing and storage. Recording sync requires a Plaud account and access to Plaud's cloud, so the full workflow isn't offline.

Phorminx turns speech into text in Windows apps and keeps a searchable record of meetings. It's for people who want dictation, translated transcripts and answers about a call without sending the conversation to a cloud AI service.

Willow Inference Server is a self-hosted speech server for developers building voice assistants, transcription apps, and accessible interfaces. It handles speech recognition and speech generation on your own hardware.

Voice-Clone-Studio brings voice cloning and speech production into one browser interface for people making podcasts, audiobooks and dialogue recordings. It combines several engines with tools for preparing samples and training custom voices.

YouDub-webui is a self-hosted video translation and dubbing app for creators and small teams making videos available in another language. Its most established workflow is English-to-Chinese dubbing for YouTube; it also supports Chinese-to-English dubbing for Bilibili.

Google AI Edge Eloquent turns speech into edited text for people who prefer dictating notes and drafts to typing them. It uses on-device Gemma models to remove verbal filler and self-corrections.

Diariz is a self-hosted meeting transcription app for individuals and teams that want recordings and transcripts on their own server. It turns captured or uploaded audio into searchable meeting records.

CleanStream filters unwanted speech in live OBS audio for streamers and people recording spoken content. It runs speech recognition on your machine with Whisper through whisper.cpp, and introduces a playback delay while it decides which audio to keep.

Note67 records and transcribes meetings for people who want searchable notes without sending their conversations to a cloud service. It combines live speech recognition with summaries generated on your computer.

MLX Omni Server lets developers use local models through both OpenAI-compatible and Anthropic-compatible APIs on an Apple Silicon Mac. It's for applications built around those SDKs that need inference on hardware the developer controls. Apple's MLX framework provides hardware acceleration, and all AI processing stays on the Mac.

Screenpipe records computer activity so people can revisit past work and give AI agents context from screens and conversations. Capture history stays on your device by default.

Notely Voice turns speech and recordings into editable notes for lectures, meetings and interviews. It runs Whisper on your device, so speech recognition works offline after you download a model and doesn't upload audio to a cloud service.

Hovor is a dictation app for people who want to speak text into their Mac apps and choose between local speech recognition and a cloud service. On supported Apple Silicon Macs, it runs downloaded Parakeet or Whisper models on the device, so on-device transcription happens on your Mac.

Whisperstream turns speech into text in the app you're writing in. It's for people who want to dictate messages, documents or coding prompts while keeping speech recognition on their computer.

Dictus Desktop is a free, open source voice dictation app for macOS, Windows and Linux. It turns speech into text in the app you're typing in, with transcription handled entirely on your computer. It's for people who want to dictate messages, documents or emails without sending their recordings to a cloud service.

Speech Note lets you dictate, read aloud and translate multilingual notes on Linux and Sailfish OS. It's for people who want speech and text processing to stay on their device and work offline.

VibeVoice is a family of voice AI models for developers and researchers building transcription and speech generation applications. It can capture who spoke and when, or produce spoken responses from incoming text.

ARIA turns audio playing on a Windows PC into live subtitles for videos, games, browser playback and calls. It's for people who need captions across apps or want translations alongside the original speech.

WayVoice is a local AI dictation app for Linux users who want to enter text by speaking in their desktop applications. It processes speech on your machine, with no cloud service required for recognition.

Vibe is a desktop app for people who need transcripts or subtitles from recordings without uploading them to a transcription service. It handles audio and video locally, including interviews, meetings and material in different languages.