Top SPEECH-TO-TEXT GitHub Repositories & Tools (2026)

The truly free, and open-source cross-platform CapCut replacement (supports MCPs).

Voice-to-text dictation app with local (Nvidia Parakeet/Whisper) and cloud models (BYOK). Privacy-first and available cross-platform.

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

ODS V3 Pre-Release: Public testing and refinement ahead of the official V3 launch. Turn your PC, Mac, or Linux box into a private AI server.

Open source voice AI platform. Self-hosted alternative to Vapi and Retell. On Prem, BYOK across Speech to Speech or LLM/STT/TTS, with a visual workflow builder, MCP native and telephony support.

Open-source, local-first Granola/Otter alternative that Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, and any MCP client can query. Meetings, calls, and voice memos transcribed on-device into markdown you own.

ggml speech-to-text inference for 16+ model families

Open-source local AI SDK - run AI on-device with no cloud, no API keys. Supports GGUF, RAG, image, music, and video generation, speech-to-text, P2P inference, and more. Cross-platform: Linux, macOS, Windows, Android, iOS.

Muesli: agent-native local meeting transcription + dictation for macOS (Granola + WisprFlow alternative)

Build voice agents with open-source models

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.

Open-source realtime voice agent server in Go with WebRTC (WHIP), barge-in, streaming STT/LLM/TTS pipelines, plugin system, multi-language SDKs, SIP telephony, ESP32 support & fully local mode.

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

Petal is a native macOS menu bar app for fast, local-first audio transcription.

Cross-platform local voice typing and meeting transcription for macOS and Linux.

TypeWhisper for Windows - Local speech-to-text with translation

On-device meeting transcriber for macOS — auto-records Teams/Zoom/Webex, transcribes & separates speakers locally. No cloud. Open-source alternative to Otter/Granola/Fireflies.

Free, sub-second on-device AI dictation for macOS. Dual engines (Whisper + Parakeet) on Apple Silicon. Optional AI polish on your Mac with EG-1 or S1-mini by Superwhisper, Apple Intelligence (macOS 26), Ollama, or your own OpenAI/Gemini/Claude key. Snippets, custom words, no account, no subscription, audio never leaves your Mac.

iOS & watchOS speech-to-text app with AI voice keyboard, on-device RAG, and chat with your notes - powered by Apple Foundation Models, WhisperKit, NVIDIA Parakeet, and 20+ AI providers

Jellyfin plugin for local AI-powered subtitle generation using Whisper - all processing stays on your server