Local AI for Speech, Voice and Music

ALH Pro processes images, video and audio on your own computer. It's for people restoring older footage, enlarging photos or illustrations, and preparing media without uploading their files.

Pipecat is an open-source Python framework for developers who want to run voice and video agent applications locally or on their own servers. It hosts the conversation pipeline, while speech and model processing depend on the services you choose. Integrations such as Soniox, OpenAI and Cartesia send the relevant requests to those providers.

My Neuro is a local AI desktop companion for people who want to create a character with their own choice of appearance, voice and personality. It supports spoken and typed conversations, with character expressions and movements that respond to the dialogue.

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.

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.

Kokoro-FastAPI generates speech on your own machine or server using Kokoro-82M. It's for developers adding narration to reading apps, audiobooks or voice assistants through an OpenAI-compatible speech API.

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.

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.

Abogen turns books, documents and subtitle files into narrated audio for readers making audiobooks and creators producing voiceovers. It can generate matching captions or follow timestamps for timed narration.

Waves Clarity Vx is a proprietary AI audio plugin for removing background noise from recorded voices. It handles both speech and singing, so it's relevant to music producers working on vocal tracks as well as podcast creators and video editors cleaning up dialogue.

RipX DAW is an AI audio workstation for musicians and remixers who want to change individual sounds within a finished recording. It separates a mix into stems and extracts notes, harmonics and other sound components, letting you work below the level of an entire vocal or instrument track.

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.

ACE-Step Studio is a desktop AI music generator for musicians and anyone who wants to create songs on their own hardware. It turns a short idea, or a description with lyrics, into a full vocal track or instrumental.

RealtimeTTS is a Python text-to-speech library for developers building voice assistants and other apps that need spoken responses before the full text is ready. It accepts both complete text and incoming LLM output.

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.

Vocaldi is a paid Mac app that combines voice typing with read-aloud for people who prefer speaking to typing or listening to written text. Transcription, dictation cleanup and speech synthesis run on your Mac, so the audio and text you process stay on the device. It requires Apple Silicon and macOS 14 or later.

LiveKit Agents is a framework for developers building voice assistants, phone agents and applications that combine speech, video and text. Python and Node.js agents interact with users through LiveKit rooms connected to web, mobile or telephone clients.

Sandbook is an offline text-to-speech reader for iPhone and iPad, for people who want to listen to books and documents without uploading them. It runs Kokoro-82M on the device through Apple MLX, with the speech model and voices included in the app. It needs no account and has no ads or tracking.

CutScript is a desktop audio and video editor for podcasters and creators who prefer editing speech through text. Deleting a word from the transcript cuts the matching section of the recording, making it a local-first Descript alternative.

Munder Difflin is a desktop app for developers who want coding agents to collaborate on their own machine. You give an orchestrator a request, and it divides the work among agents instead of leaving you to coordinate separate terminals.

Whisper Notes transcribes interviews, lectures and meetings for people who need recordings to stay on their own device. It works without an internet connection or account.

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.

Askimo is an AI desktop app for people who want to ask questions about their files and delegate work from the same place they chat. It supports local LLM backends and cloud providers, including Ollama, LM Studio, OpenAI, Claude and Gemini.

fcitx5-vinput adds voice typing to Fcitx5 on Linux. It's for people who want to dictate text and use spoken instructions to edit it, with a choice between local speech recognition and cloud services.

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.

Conduit is a native mobile AI client for people who want access to their self-hosted models and agents from an iPhone or Android phone. It can connect through Open WebUI or directly to a model endpoint.

Accentize DeRoom is a proprietary desktop audio plugin for podcast editors, content creators and dialogue editors working with speech recorded in echoing rooms. It runs inside audio and video applications on macOS and Windows, using a neural network to separate direct sound from room reflections.

Speakr is a self-hosted transcription and note-taking app for people who need to revisit meetings, interviews or lectures. It pairs recordings with searchable transcripts and AI summaries.

MacWhisper turns recordings into editable transcripts for people working with interviews, lectures, podcasts and meetings. Local transcription works offline and keeps the audio on your Mac.

MOSS-Music is a local AI model for people who need to describe, transcribe, or analyze recorded music. It works with full tracks and combines sung lyrics with musical details in its responses.

Subtitle Edit is an offline desktop application for people creating captions or revising subtitle files alongside video. Editing, format conversion and playback run on your computer. Optional translation and speech services send requests to external providers.

Home Assistant Assist lets you control your smart home through natural language. It's built into Home Assistant and can process voice entirely on your own hardware, keeping those voice commands local.

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.

IndexTTS is a local text-to-speech system for people creating spoken audio and developers adding speech generation to applications. It can reproduce a voice from a single reference recording.