Open Source Audio Transcription Tools

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...

A free, open source, and extensible speech-to-text application that works completely offline.

FUTO Voice Input is an application that lets you do speech-to-text on Android, integrating with third party keyboards or apps that use the generic speech-to-text APIs.

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.

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.

Ito transforms your voice into perfect text anywhere on Mac. Speak naturally, and our AI crafts polished messages for any context.

Transcribes speech instantly with local AI for near-perfect accuracy and privacy, featuring real-time native macOS support and user-provided AI enhancements.

audapolis aims to make the workflow for spoken-word-heavy media editing easier, faster and more accessible.

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...

Transcribro is a private and on-device speech recognition keyboard and service for Android.

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.

Free, open-source, real-time dictation for Windows. Runs locally (no cloud!), uses AI, and types directly into any application via a user-friendly GUI.

Parlatype is a minimal audio player for manual speech transcription, written for the GNOME desktop environment. It plays audio sources to transcribe them in your favourite text application.

No more switching between Quicktime and Word. Pause, rewind and fast-forward without taking your hands off the keyboard. Interactive timestamps to navigate through your transcript with. Automatically saved to your browser's storage every...

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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...

Transcribe and translate your audio files - for free.

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.

Open source transcription software for Linux, Windows, and Mac. Comparable to ExpressScribe.

Ragnar is a simple app built with Python and Streamlit that transcribes your audio and video files locally on your computer, or your own server. Totally secure and without any need to call out to any services but your own computer. It uses Whisper and Whisper Stable.

This is an iOS application written in Objective-c for assisting the people who want to work out a piece of audio in order to write it out.