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Top 23 Python Whisper Projects
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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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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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buzz
Buzz transcribes and translates audio offline on your personal computer. Powered by OpenAI's Whisper.
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FunASR
A Fundamental End-to-End Speech Recognition Toolkit and Open Source SOTA Pretrained Models, Supporting Speech Recognition, Voice Activity Detection, Text Post-processing etc.
Project mention: CosyVoice 2025 Complete Guide: The Ultimate Multi-lingual Text-to-Speech Solution | dev.to | 2025-12-15FunASR - Automatic Speech Recognition
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PaddleSpeech
Easy-to-use Speech Toolkit including Self-Supervised Learning model, SOTA/Streaming ASR with punctuation, Streaming TTS with text frontend, Speaker Verification System, End-to-End Speech Translation and Keyword Spotting. Won NAACL2022 Best Demo Award.
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inference
Swap GPT for any LLM by changing a single line of code. Xinference lets you run open-source, speech, and multimodal models on cloud, on-prem, or your laptop — all through one unified, production-ready inference API.
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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 -
Stream
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- Project mention: CosyVoice 2025 Complete Guide: The Ultimate Multi-lingual Text-to-Speech Solution | dev.to | 2025-12-15
WeNet - Speech Recognition Toolkit
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distil-whisper
Distilled variant of Whisper for speech recognition. 6x faster, 50% smaller, within 1% word error rate.
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You'll probably like Whisper Live and it's browser extensions: https://github.com/collabora/WhisperLive?tab=readme-ov-file#...
Start playing a YouTube video in the browser, select "start recording" in the extension, and it starts writing subtitles in white text on a black background below the video. When you stop capturing you can download the subtitles as a standard .srt file.
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chatgpt-telegram-bot
🤖 A Telegram bot that integrates with OpenAI's official ChatGPT APIs to provide answers, written in Python (by n3d1117)
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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
- Project mention: Speaches: Local API server for TTS/STT models using faster-whisper | news.ycombinator.com | 2025-06-11
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subsai
🎞️ Subtitles generation tool (Web-UI + CLI + Python package) powered by OpenAI's Whisper and its variants 🎞️
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whisper-ctranslate2
Whisper command line client compatible with original OpenAI client based on CTranslate2.
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transcriptionstream
turnkey self-hosted offline transcription and diarization service with llm summary
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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 Whisper discussion
Python Whisper related posts
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Show HN: Likes/day as fake profile → built my own dating app in 100 days
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CosyVoice 2025 Complete Guide: The Ultimate Multi-lingual Text-to-Speech Solution
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Show HN: Built a Global Dating App in 100 Days Using Cursor ($20/Mo)
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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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Ask HN: What Speaker Diarization tools should I look into?
- A note from our sponsor - Stream getstream.io | 23 Dec 2025
Index
What are some of the best open-source Whisper projects in Python? This list will help you:
| # | Project | Stars |
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| 1 | faster-whisper | 19,503 |
| 2 | whisperX | 19,239 |
| 3 | buzz | 15,894 |
| 4 | FunASR | 14,021 |
| 5 | PaddleSpeech | 12,449 |
| 6 | inference | 8,864 |
| 7 | voice-pro | 5,202 |
| 8 | wenet | 4,953 |
| 9 | distil-whisper | 4,003 |
| 10 | WhisperLive | 3,675 |
| 11 | chatgpt-telegram-bot | 3,450 |
| 12 | whisper-standalone-win | 2,740 |
| 13 | whisper-timestamped | 2,700 |
| 14 | speaches | 2,697 |
| 15 | Whisper-WebUI | 2,565 |
| 16 | auto-subtitle | 2,049 |
| 17 | subsai | 1,602 |
| 18 | yt-whisper | 1,414 |
| 19 | whisper-ctranslate2 | 1,170 |
| 20 | truss | 1,098 |
| 21 | AI-Waifu-Vtuber | 984 |
| 22 | whisper-writer | 974 |
| 23 | transcriptionstream | 904 |
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