Local AI for Speech, Voice and Music

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.

Rasa Open Source is a Python framework for developers building text and voice assistants on their own servers. It provides natural-language understanding, dialogue management and integrations with messaging channels.

Willow is a voice assistant for people who want to control home automation through hardware and speech processing they own. It provides an alternative to Amazon Echo or Google Home on Espressif's ESP32-S3-BOX hardware family.

Scarf gives people running the Hermes AI agent a native interface for conversations, project work and host management. It requires an existing Hermes installation; the iPhone companion, ScarfGo, connects directly to your hosts over SSH.

TalkToPaste is a voice dictation utility for macOS and Windows that runs speech recognition on your computer. The official site links to the VoiceToClipboard repository, which documents the local implementation and installation scripts. Transcription works offline after the speech model has been downloaded.

python-audio-separator splits recordings into separate vocal and instrumental tracks on your own hardware. It's a Python package for karaoke creators and developers who want to process audio in scripts or applications.

Hold Speak is a macOS menu bar app for people who want to dictate prompts to AI agents or enter text in other apps. It runs Whisper locally on your GPU through WhisperKit and CoreML, so local transcription works offline and keeps speech on your Mac. Push-to-talk dictation inserts the transcript into the focused text field.

VideoLingo is a video translation app for creators and educators producing bilingual subtitles or dubbed videos. Its self-hosted browser interface brings transcription, translation and subtitle preparation into one workflow, though the selected providers determine which processing stays local.

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.

Superwhisper turns spoken words into text in the app you're using. It suits people who prefer dictating messages, documents or requests to coding assistants over typing them.

Voci is a local text-to-speech reader for Windows 10 and 11 that speaks in voices cloned from short audio recordings. It's for people who want to listen to documents or pasted text in a chosen voice without sending the content to a cloud service. After the initial downloads, it works offline and doesn't require an account or API key.

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.

TEN Framework is a self-hosted framework for developers building voice agents and multimodal conversational applications. Its default assistant example depends on external services even when the application runs on your hardware.

pyannote.audio is a Python toolkit for developers and researchers who need to separate recordings by speaker. Speaker diarization identifies who spoke when, so applications can associate parts of an audio recording with different speakers.

Qwen3-TTS is a family of local text-to-speech models for developers building speech applications or creating audio with custom voices.

Fluid is a local AI assistant for Mac users who want to ask questions without sending their chats to a hosted model. It runs Meta Llama 3 on your Mac and supports offline conversations.

Fish Diffusion is a Python framework for developers and researchers training diffusion models for text-to-speech, singing voice synthesis and singing voice conversion. It works with your own datasets and provides code you can adapt for different voice generation tasks.

Max Headbox is a local AI agent for people who want a voice-controlled assistant that can carry out actions on a Raspberry Pi. It processes voice and runs models on your own hardware without relying on cloud AI providers.

aTrain is an offline transcription app for researchers and people working with recorded interviews. It turns speech into text on your own computer and can label segments by speaker. Recordings and transcripts stay local, so you can process sensitive material without uploading it to a transcription service.

DiffSynth-Studio is a diffusion model engine for developers and researchers generating media or training models on their own hardware. It combines inference and training, with memory-saving features for consumer GPUs.

Pretype is a local AI writing assistant for people who want sentence suggestions across their Mac apps. It works in native apps, Electron apps and web text fields without separate plugins for each app.

Newelle is a Linux desktop AI assistant for people who want to chat with local models and use AI to work with documents and files. It also supports external model providers.

DiffSinger generates synthetic singing voices for voice developers and music production. OpenVPI maintains this fork of MoonInTheRiver/DiffSinger, with acoustic models and adjustable vocal expression controls.

Kokoro is a text-to-speech model and inference library for developers adding speech generation to personal projects or production applications. It runs on your own hardware and uses the compact Kokoro-82M model.

AudioBud is a dictation app for Windows that puts speech into the text field you're writing in. It builds on Handy by CJ Pais and suits people who want voice typing with local speech recognition rather than a hosted transcription service.

Antinode Clear is a proprietary audio plug-in for Windows and macOS that separates speech from background noise and voice reverb in real time. Formerly called Supertone Clear, it's for post-production engineers, video editors, musicians and streamers who need to clean up speech or retain the ambience behind it.

ReScript is a video and audio editor for people cutting interviews, podcasts and voice notes through text. Deleting words from a transcript removes the matching sections of the recording.

Transcribe Anything turns recordings and online videos into text and subtitles using Whisper-based speech recognition. It's a command-line tool with a Python API for people processing media locally or adding transcription to their own applications.

SurfSense is a desktop NotebookLM alternative for people working with confidential documents, research or study material. It answers questions across your files and turns selected sources into editable outputs.

Open Wispr is a voice dictation tool for people who want to speak into Mac apps while keeping audio and text on their computer. It inserts transcribed speech at the cursor in editors, browsers, terminals, email and other applications.

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.

HotClip turns long recordings into short vertical videos for creators editing livestreams, podcasts, courses and spoken presentations. It suggests highlights with reasons and scores, so you can review the selections before exporting.

Soundlabs MicDrop is a proprietary audio plug-in that transforms a voice or instrument performance into another voice or instrument sound. Producers can use its model library for singing, narration, synthetic vocal effects and vocal-controlled instrument parts. Model packs extend the available sounds within the same application.

Handy is a desktop speech-to-text app for people who want to dictate into the apps they already use. It transcribes speech on your computer and inserts the text into the active text field.