Top SPEECH-RECOGNITION GitHub Repositories & Tools (2026)

Port of OpenAI's Whisper model in C/C++

🤗 Transformers: the model-definition framework for state-of-the-art machine learning models in text, vision, audio, and multimodal models, for both inference and training.

Frontier CoreML audio models in your apps — text-to-speech, speech-to-text, voice activity detection, and speaker diarization. In Swift, powered by SOTA open source.

very fast speech-to-text, diarization, streaming (even in CPU) with NVIDIA Parakeet in Rust

Native macOS transcription for selected-app audio and microphone input, using Apple’s on-device speech frameworks with durable timestamped Markdown output

Open-source, offline voice-to-text for macOS. Hold a hotkey, speak, text appears. Private on-device dictation with multiple speech engines.

AI speech toolkit for Apple Silicon — ASR, TTS, speech-to-speech, VAD, and diarization powered by MLX and CoreML

On-device Speech AI for Apple Silicon