Whisper
3 projects tagged Whisper, in the order of our ranking. Some replace a paid product; others are free tools people use alongside one.
Most often they replace ElevenLabs or Otter.ai. 3 of 3 run on your own machine. The most starred is whisper.cpp, with 55k stars on GitHub.
| Compare | Project | Runs on my machine | Allowed at work | Paid services | Hardware | Setup | Stars |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| whisper.cppDependency-free C/C++ port of OpenAI's Whisper speech recognition, running on CPU or GPU across desktop, mobile and the browser. | Yes | YesMIT | None required | No graphics card needed | Hard | 55k+179 this week | |
| HandyFree offline speech-to-text for Windows, macOS and Linux; press a shortcut, speak, and your words appear in any text field. | Yes | YesMIT | None required | No graphics card needed | Easy | 37k | |
| faster-whisperReimplementation of OpenAI Whisper on CTranslate2, up to 4x faster with less memory, with int8 on CPU or GPU. | Yes | YesMIT | None required | No graphics card needed | Easy | 26k+234 this week |
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