Windows Speech Recognition AlternativesAudio Transcription Tools and other similar apps like Windows Speech Recognition

Windows Speech Recognition is described as 'Makes using a keyboard and mouse optional. You can control your PC with your voice and dictate text instead' and is a audio transcription tool in the audio & music category. There are more than 50 alternatives to Windows Speech Recognition for a variety of platforms, including Mac, Windows, iPhone, Web-based and Linux apps. The best Windows Speech Recognition alternative is Vibe Transcribe, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Windows Speech Recognition are Handy STT, Voxtral, FUTO Voice Input and Spokenly.

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  1. Vibe Transcribe icon
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    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...

    125 Vibe Transcribe alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  2. Voxtral icon
     21 likes

    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.

    79 Voxtral alternatives

    Cost / License

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Hugging Face
    • Self-Hosted
    • Online
     
  3. Spokenly icon
     13 likes

    Experience effortless voice-to-text on your Mac. Speak your thoughts, and let modern AI handle the typing—no hidden data collection, no distractions.

    71 Spokenly alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • iPhone
     
  4. Whisper icon
     24 likes

    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.

    130 Whisper alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  5. Paraspeech icon
     6 likes

    Fast and 100% offline Speech to Text for MacOS.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
     
  6. Moonshine AI icon
     12 likes

    Moonshine is a family of speech-to-text models optimized for fast and accurate automatic speech recognition (ASR) on resource-constrained devices. It is well-suited to real-time, on-device applications like live transcription and voice command recognition.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Python
    • Self-Hosted
     
  7. Ito.ai icon
     6 likes

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

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
     
  8. xcribe icon
     8 likes

    Privacy-focused transcription tool for macOS. For free. No ads, no tracking, no data collection.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
     
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