asr — independent software & tools

7 independent asr listings the big search engines bury.

• aurum

  github · Free · by joe-broadhead

  Speech both ways. On-device by default. Local STT + TTS CLI, aurum-core, aurum-ffi.

• transcria

  github · Free · by Martossien

  Self-hosted meeting transcription portal — speech-to-text, speaker diarization, LLM-corrected transcripts, structured summaries and Word minutes, on your own GPUs. Flask + PostgreSQL, GDPR audit trail, distributed GPU topologies, docker

• docker-talkies

  github · Free · by psyb0t

  OpenAI-compatible audio server in Docker. 7 ASR backends (Whisper, Distil-Whisper, Parakeet, Canary, Canary-Qwen) + 2 TTS engines (Kokoro, Qwen3-TTS voice cloning). Single /v1/audio/{transcriptions,speech,voices} surface. CPU + CUDA images. Hot model swap. MCP server built in.

• franken_whisper

  github · Free · by Dicklesworthstone

  Agent-first Rust ASR orchestration stack: Bayesian backend routing across whisper.cpp/insanely-fast-whisper/whisper-diarization, real-time NDJSON streaming, SQLite persistence, TTY audio transport, conformance harness. 107K lines, 2000+ tests, zero unsafe code.

• JianYan

  github · Free · by Jnewton-lab

  🎤 Transform speech to text on Windows with fast, local AI processing. Enjoy seamless recording and automatic integration for effective communication.

• vidknot

  github · Free · by suonian

  VidkNot Video Knowledge, Knotted. Convert video links to structured notes, supports Feishu, Yuque, Notion, Obsidian. | 一键将视频链接转换为结构化笔记, 支持飞书、语雀、Notion、Obsidian 等多平台存储.

• captainslog-whisper

  github · Free · by ZeiraxGaming

  Convert your voice to text locally using Whisper without sending data to the cloud or requiring accounts.