Whisper Alternatives

Whisper is described as 'End-to-end speech recognition model trained on 680,000 hours of multitask, multilingual audio data, offering robust transcription, translation, and language identification' and is a audio transcription tool in the audio & music category. There are more than 100 alternatives to Whisper for a variety of platforms, including Mac, Web-based, Windows, iPhone and SaaS apps. The best Whisper alternative is Handy STT, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Whisper are Vibe Transcribe, Voxtral, FUTO Voice Input and Spokenly.

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  1. Meetily icon
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    Open-source Rust based AI meeting assistant with Parakeet/Whisper live transcription, speaker diarization, and Ollama summarization. 100% local processing. No cloud required.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
     
  2. Temi icon
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    Automatic audio to text transcription.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Android
    • iPhone
    • iPad
    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
     
  3. writtan icon
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    Transcription made effortless. Dictate your thoughts, and your words will be transcribed for you in the palm of your hand. Speech to text has never been easier!. Export and share your transcriptions to anyone.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Android
    • iPhone
     
  4. Notiq icon
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    Notiq is a privacy-first note-taking app for iPhone that lets you capture voice memos, transcribe speech, write text notes, and scan documents — all securely and completely offline.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • iPhone
    • iPad
     
  5. Deciphr AI icon
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    Powered by deep AI, Deciphr timestamps and summarizes your entire podcast transcript for you.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Online
     
  6. SpeechText.AI's primary feature is domain-specific speech recognition technology. With this audio transcription software you can get accurate transcripts for wide range of domains: finance, HR, legal, education, medical, information technology, etc.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
     
  7. VibeVoice icon
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    VibeVoice is a novel framework designed for generating expressive, long-form, multi-speaker conversational audio, such as podcasts, from text. It addresses significant challenges in traditional Text-to-Speech (TTS) systems, particularly in scalability, speaker consistency, and...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Platforms

    • Python
    • Self-Hosted
    • Hugging Face
     
  8. Ragnar icon
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    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.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  9. Whisperian is a highly configurable voice-to-text tool made for developers, managers, writers, and anyone who dislikes typing and wants to bring advanced voice transcription workflows to their Android devices.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Android
    • Android Tablet
     
  10. Scribblr.ai is an online site that allows users to upload a file in a variety of ways to receive an automatic transcription, transcription from a professional, or closed captioning. Automatic transcriptions can be revised with a built-in editor.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Online
     
  11. 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!.

    Cost / License

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Linux
    • Windows
     
  12. Wordwand icon
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    WordWand is a system-wide AI assistant for macOS that works in any app through a single keyboard shortcut. No copy-pasting, no tab switching — just select text, press a hotkey, and transform it instantly.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Mac
     
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