Local AI for Speech, Voice and Music

Talon Voice lets people write, code, browse and play games through hands-free computer input. It suits people who want to control their computer using speech, eye movements or sounds.

KittenTTS is a Python text-to-speech library for developers adding local speech generation to apps or producing spoken audio from text. It supports voice cloning without model training and doesn't require a GPU.

AI Runner is a desktop app for people who want an AI companion and an art workspace on their own hardware. Its local chat, voice and image tools work offline without an API key or subscription.

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.

Local OpenAI LLM for Home Assistant connects conversation agents and AI tasks to models served through an OpenAI-compatible API. It's for Home Assistant users who want to choose their own model server for voice conversations and generation tasks.

RealChar lets you create AI companions with their own personalities and hold live voice or text conversations. It's for people who want to shape a character and host the app themselves while using external AI services for replies.

SpeechPulse is a dictation and transcription app for people who want to write by voice or turn recordings into text. Its Whisper speech recognition runs locally, so dictation can work without an internet connection.

Minutes is a meeting notetaker for people who want searchable records of calls, voice memos and everyday dictation on their own computer. You can read the notes in the app or let an AI assistant search the conversations you choose to share.

OpenVoice generates speech in a reference speaker's voice from a short audio clip. It's for developers and creators who need the same voice across languages or want to vary its delivery without changing the speaker.

sonible smart:chain is a proprietary AI mixing plug-in for producers and audio engineers who want help processing individual tracks and building a rough mix. It runs in a DAW on macOS or Windows, with native Apple Silicon support. Its processors share an analysis of the audio, so their suggested settings account for the rest of the chain.

sherpa-onnx is a toolkit for developers building speech features that work offline on their own devices. It covers transcription, speech generation and audio analysis, with processing kept local.

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.

Accentize SpectralBalance is a proprietary dialogue EQ plugin that runs on macOS and Windows, with native Apple Silicon support. It's for dialogue editors, ADR mixers and podcast producers who need speech recorded across different takes or environments to sound consistent.

Accentize dxSplit is an AI audio plugin for dialogue editors and post-production mixers who need to clean up speech recordings. It separates dialogue into voice, room reverb and background noise so you can adjust each component independently.

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.

DiffRhythm is an AI music generation model for musicians and developers who want to create full-length songs on their own hardware. It uses diffusion to generate songs from lyric and reference-audio inputs.

Speaches is a self-hosted speech server for developers building transcription services and voice applications. Its OpenAI-compatible API lets existing clients and SDKs work with speech models running on hardware you control.

Extended OpenAI Conversation is a custom conversation agent that runs inside your Home Assistant instance and uses OpenAI's remote API for model calls. It builds on Home Assistant's OpenAI Conversation integration for people who want chat to control their smart home. The component runs locally, but conversations and exposed device context go to OpenAI, so it requires an internet connection.

HilbertRaum is a local AI workspace for people working with confidential documents, research, or personal archives. It lets you use AI without sending your files or conversations to an external service.

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.

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.

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.

GLaDOS is a local AI voice assistant for people who want a conversational companion modeled on the personality core from Valve's Portal games. It combines a custom voice and dry humor with awareness of its surroundings.

F5-TTS is a local text-to-speech system for developers and creators generating speech on their own hardware. Its Gradio app provides a browser interface for speech generation, with tools for training and fine-tuning models.

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.

Wan2GP generates media on your own computer for creators who want to work with several AI models in one browser interface. It builds on Wan-Video/Wan2.1 and focuses on making generation accessible on GPUs with limited memory.

Magenta RealTime is a local AI music model and synthesis engine for musicians playing AI instruments and developers building interactive music apps. It generates a continuous audio stream on supported Apple Silicon Macs.

Wyoming Satellite connects a microphone and audio playback device to Home Assistant for a self-hosted voice assistant. The project is archived and no longer maintained; Linux Voice Assistant replaces it using the ESPHome protocol.

Voxtral Small is an audio and text model for developers building self-hosted speech applications. The separate mistral-inference library is archived and no longer maintained; this model runs with vLLM or Hugging Face Transformers.