Offline Speech-to-Text and Transcription

Voicebox combines speech creation and dictation for people producing audio or working with AI agents. It's a free, open-source alternative to ElevenLabs and WisprFlow that processes voice data on your own machine.

VoiceStreamAI turns live browser audio into text on a server you control. It's for developers adding streaming transcription to an app or building a speech-to-text service around Whisper.

xberg, formerly Kreuzberg, is a local document extraction engine for developers building AI search and document processing applications. It turns files into text and structured content that those applications can use.

audio.cpp runs audio models locally for developers building speech tools and people generating or processing audio on their own hardware. It brings multiple audio tasks into one C++ runtime built on ggml.

OpenSuperWhisper is a speech-to-text app for people who want to dictate or transcribe saved recordings on an Apple Silicon Mac. It runs Whisper and Parakeet models locally.

LM Studio runs downloaded language models for conversations and tasks on your computer. Its Bionic agent helps people create documents, write software and carry out work using local or frontier open models.

Whisper Desktop turns audio and video recordings into transcripts and subtitles on your computer. It's for people working with interviews, lectures, podcasts or videos who want a desktop interface for transcription and captioning.

ESPnet is a speech AI toolkit for researchers and developers who want to run pretrained models on their own hardware or train speech systems. Its recipes cover data preparation through evaluation, with published results for comparison.

VoiceFlow is a dictation app and meeting recorder for developers and anyone who wants to turn speech into text without cloud transcription. It inserts dictated words into text fields across your computer and transcribes recorded calls locally.

Google AI Edge Gallery is a local AI app for people who want to use and compare generative models on their own devices. Model inference runs on-device, including offline chat and media tasks.

MioSub is an AI subtitle editor for creators and translators working with video or audio. It handles subtitle generation and translation for local files or downloaded media, including podcasts, radio recordings and audiobooks.

WhisperSubTranslate is a free desktop app for creating translated SRT subtitles from video speech. It's for people who want to subtitle videos on their own computer, with offline transcription and translation after downloading the models.

SoniTranslate is an AI video dubbing app for people translating spoken videos into other languages. It can run locally, with a Gradio interface in the browser.

LocalVocal turns speech into live captions inside OBS for streamers and people recording video. It processes speech on your computer, so transcription can work offline without sending audio to a cloud service.

Whisper ASR Webservice gives developers a speech-to-text API for their own applications and services. It processes audio on your machine or server and supports multilingual transcription, speech translation and language identification.

AudioWhisper is a macOS menu bar app for dictating into other apps and converting recordings to text. It suits people who want on-device speech recognition with the option to use cloud transcription.

AudioNotes turns audio and video into transcripts and structured Markdown notes on your computer. It's for reviewing meetings, interviews, courses and voice memos while keeping the recordings and resulting notes locally.

Parakeet is NVIDIA's speech recognition model family. The linked English model, parakeet-tdt-0.6b-v2, is for developers building transcription services, subtitles and voice applications with a model they can run locally.

Numen provides hands-free voice control and dictation for Linux. It is for people who want to operate their computer through speech, including users who cannot comfortably type or want to reduce hand strain.

VoxInput is an open-source dictation tool for Linux and macOS that types spoken words into the active application. It's for people who want speech input across their desktop, including applications without their own dictation feature. On Linux, it also works in the system console.

MDFlux is a desktop app for turning documents into structured Markdown for AI workflows, research, or text editing. It suits people who need usable text from mixed files and scanned archives while keeping conversion on their own machine.

Vosk is an offline speech-to-text toolkit for developers building voice interfaces or transcription software. It processes speech on the device or server running it, without sending audio to a cloud recognition service.

Voibe is a paid AI dictation and meeting notes app for people handling confidential work, including legal, healthcare and finance professionals. It types spoken text into other apps and captures meetings on a Mac without a bot joining the call. Dictation works on Mac and Windows; meeting capture is Mac-only.

FUTO Voice Input adds private dictation to compatible Android keyboards and apps. It's for people who want speech recognition on their phone while keeping the keyboard they already use. Gboard and Samsung Keyboard don't support it as an alternative voice input provider.

Voice-Pro is a locally run speech processing and dubbing app for creators working with recordings or multilingual video. Its Gradio browser interface brings audio preparation, transcription and speech generation into one workspace. Internet access is required.

WhisperLive turns speech into text as audio arrives, using OpenAI's Whisper models. It's for developers and teams who want to run transcription on their own machine or server and connect it to live audio or recorded files.

Transcritório is a desktop app for researchers transcribing interviews and focus groups, with a focus on Brazilian Portuguese. It keeps audio, transcripts and metadata on your computer.

Whispering is a speech-to-text app for people who want to dictate text into other applications and choose where transcription happens. Its desktop app runs within Epicenter, but the project currently lists it at compile status after a storage migration.

WhisperLiveKit is a self-hosted speech-to-text server for meeting transcripts, live captions and apps that need speech recognition as people talk. It processes audio on your own machine or server.

Parakeety is a paid Mac dictation app for people who want to speak into the app they're already using without sending their voice to a cloud service. It runs on Apple Silicon Macs with macOS 14 or later and places the transcript at the cursor. Intel Macs aren't supported.

Izwi is a local voice AI app and runtime for people and teams processing speech on their own hardware or inside infrastructure they control. It brings audio tools and voice conversations into a desktop app, browser interface, CLI and inference server.

Scriberr transcribes recordings locally for people who want to review meetings and voice notes without uploading audio to a cloud service. It combines transcription with playback, annotations and optional questions about the recorded conversation.

Whisper WebUI turns recordings into transcripts and subtitles through a browser interface running on your own machine. It's for people captioning videos or translating speech who want local audio processing.

Moonshine is an on-device AI toolkit for developers building voice agents and spoken interfaces. Voice processing runs on the device without an account or API keys.