Open Source Audio Transcription Tools

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  1. Vibe Transcribe icon
     57 likes

    Vibe is an auto transcription service that utilizes local language learning models (LLMs) or artificial intelligence to provide transcriptions for a wide range of languages. The service prioritizes user privacy by offering fully offline transcription, ensuring that no data ever...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
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    125 alternatives
  2. Voxtral icon
     21 likes

    Voxtral models are state-of-the-art speech understanding models, which are available in two sizes — a 24B variant for production-scale applications and a 3B variant for local and edge deployments. Both versions are released under the Apache 2.0 license.

    Cost / License

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Hugging Face
    • Self-Hosted
    • Online
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  3. Whisper icon
     24 likes

    Whisper is a general-purpose speech recognition model. It is trained on a large dataset of diverse audio and is also a multi-task model that can perform multilingual speech recognition as well as speech translation and language identification.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    Transcribing in different languages
    Using the whisper module in Python
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  4. Murmure icon
     3 likes

    A privacy-first, open-source speech-to-text application that runs entirely on your machine, powered by a neural network via NVIDIA’s Parakeet model for fast, local transcription. Murmure turns your voice into text with no internet connection and zero data collection, and...

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    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
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  5. Speakr icon
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    Speakr is a personal, self-hosted web application designed for transcribing audio recordings (like meetings), generating concise summaries and titles, and interacting with the content through a chat interface. Keep all your meeting notes and insights securely on your own server.

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    Application type

    Platforms

    • Self-Hosted
    • Docker
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    61 alternatives
  6. hns icon
     1 like

    hns is a privacy-focused open-source command-line tool for on-device speech-to-text. It records your voice, transcribes it completely locally using faster-whisper, and automatically copies the text to clipboard for immediate use in any application.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Mac
    • Linux
    10 alternatives
  7. Scriberr icon
     1 like

    This is Scriberr, a self-hostable AI audio transcription app. Scriber uses the Whisper models from OpenAI, to transcribe audio files offline, on your hardware.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Self-Hosted
    • Docker
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  8. Buzz Captions icon
     4 likes

    Buzz Captions is an offline audio transcription and translation tool powered by OpenAI's Whisper model. It allows users to import audio and video files to generate transcripts in CSV, SRT, TXT and VTT formats.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Flathub
    • Flatpak
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    31 alternatives
  9. TranscriberAG icon
     5 likes

    TranscriberAG is designed for assisting the manual annotation of speech signals. It provides a user-friendly graphical user interface (GUI) for segmenting long duration speech recordings, transcribing them, labeling speech turns, topic changes and acoustic conditions.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
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    53 alternatives
  10. Amphion icon
     1 like

    Amphion is a toolkit for Audio, Music, and Speech Generation. Its purpose is to support reproducible research and help junior researchers and engineers get started in the field of audio, music, and speech generation research and development.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Self-Hosted
    • Docker
    • Python
    75 alternatives
  11. Scripto icon
     4 likes

    Scripto is a free, open source tool for enabling community transcriptions of document and multimedia files. It is designed for institutions and organizations such as libraries and museums engaging in a range of large- and small-scale collaborative transcription projects as well...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Online
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    53 alternatives
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    pmTrans (The Poor's Man Transcriber) is an open source tool for manual interview transcriptions and provides a multitude of ways to control the playback of audio files.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
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