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Top 23 Python speech-to-text Projects
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2.3X speed improvement over WhisperX and a 3X speed boost compared to HuggingFace Pipeline with FlashAttention 2 (Insanely Fast Whisper)
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Star the Speech Brain repository ⭐
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RealtimeSTT
A robust, efficient, low-latency speech-to-text library with advanced voice activity detection, wake word activation and instant transcription.
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SpeechRecognition
Speech recognition module for Python, supporting several engines and APIs, online and offline.
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InfluxDB
InfluxDB – Built for High-Performance Time Series Workloads. InfluxDB 3 OSS is now GA. Transform, enrich, and act on time series data directly in the database. Automate critical tasks and eliminate the need to move data externally. Download now.
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voice-pro
Gradio WebUI for creators and developers, featuring key TTS (Edge-TTS, kokoro) and zero-shot Voice Cloning (E2 & F5-TTS, CosyVoice), with Whisper audio processing, YouTube download, Demucs vocal isolation, and multilingual translation.
Project mention: Show HN: Likes/day as fake profile → built my own dating app in 100 days | news.ycombinator.com | 2025-12-16 -
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LLaMA-Omni
LLaMA-Omni is a low-latency and high-quality end-to-end speech interaction model built upon Llama-3.1-8B-Instruct, aiming to achieve speech capabilities at the GPT-4o level.
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whisper-standalone-win
Whisper & Faster-Whisper standalone executables for those who don't want to bother with Python.
Project mention: Show HN: Python Audio Transcription: Convert Speech to Text Locally | news.ycombinator.com | 2025-09-22I like this version of Whisper which has diarization built in: https://github.com/Purfview/whisper-standalone-win
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whisper-timestamped
Multilingual Automatic Speech Recognition with word-level timestamps and confidence
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airunner
Offline inference engine for art, real-time voice conversations, LLM powered chatbots and automated workflows
Project page here.
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StreamSpeech
StreamSpeech is an “All in One” seamless model for offline and simultaneous speech recognition, speech translation and speech synthesis.
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whisper-ctranslate2
Whisper command line client compatible with original OpenAI client based on CTranslate2.
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SaaSHub
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NOTE: The open source projects on this list are ordered by number of github stars. The number of mentions indicates repo mentiontions in the last 12 Months or since we started tracking (Dec 2020).
Python speech-to-text discussion
Python speech-to-text related posts
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Video to Text AI: The [2025 Guide] to Unlocking Revenue from Content
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Show HN: Transcribe Your Voice in Terminal Locally
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Making AI Models Faster, Cheaper, and Greener — Here’s How
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Show HN: Python Audio Transcription: Convert Speech to Text Locally
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FFmpeg 8.0 adds Whisper support
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Anthropic teams use Claude Code
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Ask HN: What Speaker Diarization tools should I look into?
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Index
What are some of the best open-source speech-to-text projects in Python? This list will help you:
| # | Project | Stars |
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| 1 | faster-whisper | 19,503 |
| 2 | whisperX | 19,239 |
| 3 | pyvideotrans | 15,550 |
| 4 | speechbrain | 10,956 |
| 5 | RealtimeSTT | 9,043 |
| 6 | SpeechRecognition | 8,913 |
| 7 | SenseVoice | 7,202 |
| 8 | voice-pro | 5,202 |
| 9 | speech-to-speech | 4,251 |
| 10 | LLaMA-Omni | 3,103 |
| 11 | whisper-asr-webservice | 3,070 |
| 12 | lingvo | 2,856 |
| 13 | whisper-standalone-win | 2,740 |
| 14 | whisper-timestamped | 2,700 |
| 15 | kalliope | 1,750 |
| 16 | Dragonfire | 1,398 |
| 17 | airunner | 1,274 |
| 18 | StreamSpeech | 1,213 |
| 19 | quillman | 1,182 |
| 20 | whisper-ctranslate2 | 1,170 |
| 21 | dc_tts | 1,160 |
| 22 | AI-Waifu-Vtuber | 984 |
| 23 | whisper-writer | 974 |
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