4 open-source alternatives to Whisper

Open-source speech recognition toolkit for training, inference, streaming ASR, VAD, punctuation, speaker diarization pipelines, and OpenAI-compatible/MCP…

Open-source SenseVoiceSmall model for Mandarin, Cantonese, English, Japanese, and Korean ASR, language ID, emotion recognition, and audio event detection.

FunASR-powered video transcription, subtitle generation, and LLM-assisted clipping tool with a local Gradio UI.

Fun-ASR speech recognition models, with native Hugging Face Transformers support for Fun-ASR-Nano and separate FunASR, vLLM and llama.cpp deployment paths.