CMU Sphinx Alternatives

CMU Sphinx is described as 'Speaker-independent large vocabulary continuous speech recognizer released under BSD style license. It is also a collection of open source tools and resources that allows researchers and developers to build speech recognition systems' and is an app in the development category. There are more than 25 alternatives to CMU Sphinx for a variety of platforms, including Mac, Windows, Linux, iPhone and Self-Hosted apps. The best CMU Sphinx alternative is Handy STT, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like CMU Sphinx are Vibe Transcribe, Voxtral, FUTO Voice Input and Speech Note.

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  1. Whishper icon
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    Transcribe any audio to text, translate and edit subtitles 100% locally with a web UI. Powered by whisper models!.

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    • Mac
    • Linux
    • Windows
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  2. Simon is an open source speech recognition program that can replace your mouse and keyboard. The system is designed to be as flexible as possible and will work with any language or dialect.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
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  3. Amphion icon
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    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)

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    • Self-Hosted
    • Docker
    • Python
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  4. Aiko icon
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    High-quality on-device transcription. Easily convert speech to text from meetings, lectures, and more.

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    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

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    Platforms

    • Mac
    • iPhone
    • iPad
    • visionOS
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  5. TalkTastic icon
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    Write with your voice in any app on macOS. Faster and more accurate than ChatGPT, Google and OpenAI Whisper. Start talking. Stop typing.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

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    Platforms

    • Mac
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  6. VoxCommando icon
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    VoxCommando is a speech recognition and command utility that can be used for home automation, as an assistive tool to speed up everyday tasks, or simply because it is fun and easy to use.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
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  7. HTK icon
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    The Hidden Markov Model Toolkit (HTK) is a portable toolkit for building and manipulating hidden Markov models. HTK is primarily used for speech recognition research.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
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  8. Kaldi icon
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    Kaldi is a toolkit for speech recognition written in C++ and licensed under the Apache License v2.0. Kaldi is intended for use by speech recognition researchers.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
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  9. BetterDictation is your personal scribe. You speak, and it will quickly and flawless transcribe into any app.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

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    Platforms

    • Mac
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  10. Txtify icon
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    Free, open-source AI tool that turns audio, video, and YouTube links into text and subtitles — self-hosted with one Docker command, with optional DeepL translation.

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    Platforms

    • Self-Hosted
    • Docker
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  11. SpeechFlow icon
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    Accurate speech-to-text API for all languages beyond just English.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
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