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Voice Recognition

Speech Note – note taking, reading and translating

September 3, 2026 Steve Emms GUI, Multimedia

Speech Note works with spoken and written material using local speech recognition, speech synthesis and machine translation.

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Voice Recognition

aTrain – automatically transcribe recorded speech

September 3, 2026 Steve Emms GUI, Multimedia

aTrain is a graphical application to transcribe recorded speech while keeping source audio and resulting text on the user’s own computer.

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Voice Recognition

faster-whisper – reimplementation of OpenAI’s Whisper

September 2, 2026 Steve Emms Multimedia

faster-whisper is a reimplementation of OpenAI’s Whisper automatic speech recognition model built around CTranslate2

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Voice Recognition

PocketSphinx – speaker-independent continuous speech recognition engine

September 2, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Multimedia

PocketSphinx is a compact, speaker-independent continuous speech recognition engine originating from CMU Sphinx.

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Voice Recognition

whisper.cpp – implementation of OpenAI’s Whisper automatic speech recognition model

September 1, 2026 Steve Emms Multimedia

whisper.cpp is a high-performance C/C++ implementation of OpenAI’s Whisper automatic speech recognition model.

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Handy – offline speech-to-text application

April 1, 2026 Steve Emms Multimedia

Handy is a cross-platform desktop speech-to-text application that lets you dictate directly into any text field using configurable keyboard shortcuts.

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ostt – Open Speech-to-Text

December 4, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Multimedia

ostt is an interactive terminal-based audio recording and speech-to-text transcription tool

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Whispering – speech recognition tool

October 28, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Multimedia

Press shortcut → speak → get text. Desktop transcription that cuts out the middleman.

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sherpa-onnx is speech-to-text and text-to-speech software

June 30, 2025 Steve Emms Scientific

sherpa-onnx is software for Speech-to-text, text-to-speech, speaker diarization, and VAD using next-gen Kaldi with onnxruntime

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Voice Recognition

Simon – frontend for simon speech recognition solution

October 21, 2023 Steve Emms Multimedia

Simon is open source speech recognition software which aims to be flexible and highly customizable.

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Voice Recognition

Eesen – End-to-End Speech Recognition using Deep RNN Models and WFST-based Decoding

October 21, 2023 Steve Emms Multimedia

Eesen is to simplify the existing complicated, expertise-intensive ASR pipeline into a straightforward sequence learning problem.

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Voice Recognition

CMUSphinx – Open Source Speech Recognition System for Mobile and Server Applications

October 21, 2023 Steve Emms Multimedia

CMUSphinx (Sphinx) is a collective term to describe a group of speech recognition systems developed at Carnegie Mellon University.

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Voice Recognition

Julius – large vocabulary continuous speech recognition decoder software

October 21, 2023 Steve Emms Multimedia

Julius is a high-performance, two-pass large vocabulary continuous speech recognition (LVCSR) engine. It supports N-gram based dictation.

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Voice Recognition

OpenSeq2Seq – TensorFlow-based toolkit for sequence-to-sequence models

October 21, 2023 Steve Emms Multimedia

OpenSeq2Seq is a toolkit for distributed and mixed precision training of sequence-to-sequence models.

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Voice Recognition

DeepSpeech – TensorFlow implementation of Baidu’s DeepSpeech architecture

October 21, 2023 Steve Emms Multimedia

DeepSpeech is an open source Speech-To-Text engine, using a model trained by machine learning techniques.

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Voice Recognition

deepspeech.pytorch – Implementation of DeepSpeech2 using Baidu Warp-CTC

October 21, 2023 Steve Emms Multimedia

deepspeech.pytorch is an implementation of DeepSpeech2 using Baidu Warp-CTC. It creates a network based on the DeepSpeech2 architecture.

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Voice Recognition

ESPnet – end-to-end speech processing toolkit

October 21, 2023 Steve Emms Multimedia

ESPnet is an end-to-end speech processing toolkit, mainly focuses on end-to-end speech recognition and end-to-end text-to-speech.

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Voice Recognition

Kaldi Speech Recognition Toolkit – Designed for Speech Recognition Researchers

October 21, 2023 Steve Emms Multimedia

Kaldi is a state-of-the-art speech recognition toolkit written in C++. It’s intended to be used mainly for acoustic modelling research.

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Voice Recognition

SpeechBrain – conversational AI toolkit

October 21, 2023 Steve Emms Multimedia

SpeechBrain is an all-in-one conversational AI toolkit based on PyTorch. This is free and open source software written in Python.

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Voice Recognition

Flashlight – C++ standalone library for machine learning

October 21, 2023 Steve Emms Multimedia

Flashlight is a fast, flexible machine learning library written entirely in C++. It provides apps for research across multiple domains.

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