Open Source Speech Note AlternativesText to Speech Services and other similar apps like Speech Note

The best open source alternative to Speech Note is Handy STT. If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked more than 50 alternatives to Speech Note and 18 is open source so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting open source alternatives to Speech Note are Vibe Transcribe, FUTO Voice Input, TypeWhisper and Whisper.

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  1. Handy STT icon
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    Free open source speech-to-text app for desktop runs fully offline, keeping transcription and audio data private. Extensible and customizable, supports accessibility, cross-platform use, and community-driven modifications. No subscriptions or internet requirement.

    86 Handy STT alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  2. Vibe Transcribe icon
     61 likes

    Delivers offline transcription of audio and video using local AI for privacy, supports batch processing, multi-language input, real-time preview, multi-format export, English translation, direct printing, system audio, microphone input, CLI, and setup customization on Windows, Linux, or macOS.

    156 Vibe Transcribe alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  3. TypeWhisper icon
     14 likes

    Runs privacy-focused speech-to-text locally on macOS, enabling system-wide dictation, batch audio and video file transcription, multi-engine support, drag-and-drop workflows, per-app profiles, searchable history, subtitle export with timestamps, and automation integration.

    59 TypeWhisper alternatives

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    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • iPhone
    • iPad
     
  4. Whisper icon
     25 likes

    An open-source, end-to-end speech recognition system trained on 680,000 hours of diverse audio, providing multilingual transcription, to-English translation, language identification, phrase-level timestamps, and high performance in real-world scenarios using transformer architecture.

    156 Whisper alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  5. Murmure icon
     6 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...

    76 Murmure alternatives

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    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  6. TalkType icon
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    Free, offline speech-to-text for Linux using OpenAI Whisper — built for modern Wayland desktops (may also work on X11), delivered as a single AppImage.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Platforms

    • Linux
     
  7. Work by Speech is the first program in the world that allows efficient work on a computer by speech without needing a keyboard and mouse.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  8. Simple, hackable offline speech to text - using the VOSK-API.

    Cost / License

    Platforms

    • Linux
     
  9.  6 likes

    CMU Sphinx is a 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.

    44 CMU Sphinx alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  10. Mycroft Mimic icon
     5 likes

    Mimic is a powerful TTS tool. Mimic is low-latency and has a small resource footprint. Its range of high quality voices also set it apart from other open source text-to-speech projects.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  11. 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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