chidiwilliams/buzz Alternatives

Tauri-based desktop GUI for local Whisper transcription; choose if you prefer a lighter frontend than Buzz.

Transcribe on your own!

CLI-only CTranslate2-based transcriber; choose for faster command-line inference without a GUI.

Whisper command line client compatible with original OpenAI client based on CTranslate2.

self-hosted OpenAI-compatible speech-to-text API; choose when you need an HTTP service rather than a desktop app.

browser-based Whisper transcription via Transformers.js; choose for zero-install client-side work, though stale and basic.

ML-powered speech recognition directly in your browser

web-UI + CLI subtitle generation tool; choose for subtitle-focused workflows with programmatic access under GPL-3.0.

🎞️ Subtitles generation tool (Web-UI + CLI + Python package) powered by OpenAI's Whisper and its variants 🎞️

multi-user Whisper transcription API with access control; choose when you need a managed web service.

This project provides an API with user level access support to transcribe speech to text using a finetuned and processed Whisper ASR model.

framework for real-time streaming Whisper; choose when building custom streaming integration.

Whisper-Flow is a framework designed to enable real-time transcription of audio content using OpenAI’s Whisper model. Rather than processing entire files after upload (“batch mode”), Whisper-Flow accepts a continuous stream of audio chunks and produces incremental transcripts immediately.

self-hosted web UI for local transcription and subtitle editing; choose for browser access and AGPL-3.0.

Transcribe any audio to text, translate and edit subtitles 100% locally with a web UI. Powered by whisper models!

web UI for Whisper subtitle generation; choose for browser-based subtitle editing under Apache-2.0.

A Web UI for easy subtitle using whisper model.

PHP web app for transcription/translation; choose if you prefer a web GUI over a desktop app.

Transcribe and translate your audio files - for free

self-hosted web service with GUI and queued API; choose for server-side transcription with job management.

Whisper as a Service (GUI and API with queuing for OpenAI Whisper)

streaming/live Whisper toolkit with VAD and websocket; choose for real-time pipeline integration.

A nearly-live implementation of OpenAI's Whisper.

Whisper ASR with speaker diarization pipeline; choose for Python scripts requiring speaker labels.

Automatic Speech Recognition with Speaker Diarization based on OpenAI Whisper

Whisper library/CLI with word-level timestamps and diarization; choose for accurate alignment.

WhisperX: Automatic Speech Recognition with Word-level Timestamps (& Diarization)

older streaming-only Whisper script, archived; choose only for a minimal live-mic example with no maintenance.

Streaming transcriber with whisper

old real-time mic transcription script; choose only for a simple reference, no active maintenance.

Real time transcription with OpenAI Whisper.

CLI for generating YouTube subtitles; choose only for YouTube video workflows.

Using OpenAI's Whisper to automatically generate YouTube subtitles

microphone-only Whisper utility; choose for a simple live-mic snippet, old and unmaintained.

Project that allows one to use a microphone with OpenAI whisper.

dictation-focused desktop app; choose for simple voice dictation rather than full transcription.

💬📝 A small dictation app using OpenAI's Whisper speech recognition model.