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Offline speech recognition API for Android, iOS, Raspberry Pi and servers with Python, Java, C# and Node

34 mentions on Hacker News by 20 people: 2 stories, 32 comments · first 2020-02-24 · latest 2026-10-14

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  1. …case numbers) and from my testing works relatively well on most browsers. (webkit, firefox, etc) https://github.com/alphacep/vosk-api
    comment by vunderba · 2026-10-14 · in Show HN: How random are you?
  2. …it fits. [0] https://github.com/projecte-aina/oTranscribe-plus [1] https://otranscribe.bsc.es/ [2] https://github.com/alphacep/vosk-api
  3. …used to have something like this, and there are some [1] solutions [2] on the horizon. > > [1]: https://github.com/alphacep/vosk-api/issues/55 > > [2]: https://github.com/outlines-dev/outlines?tab=readme-ov-file#... It's interesting as…
  4. …used to have something like this, and there are some [1] solutions [2] on the horizon. [1]: https://github.com/alphacep/vosk-api/issues/55 [2]: https://github.com/outlines-dev/outlines?tab=readme-ov-file#...
  5. …For Speech to Text (which AIUI DeepSpeech provided), I've had some success with Vosk: https://github.com/alphacep/vosk-api
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    VOSK Offline Speech Recognition API
    story by Intralexical · 2024-04-14 · 1 comment
  7. …there are great local STT options, working better than most cloud STTs for "random speech" https://github.com/alphacep/vosk-api https://picovoice.ai/platform/cheetah/
  8. …than that I think this is the best 'speech-to-speech AI' demo I've seen so far. Fantastic job! [0] https://github.com/alphacep/vosk-api/ [1] https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/cognitive-services/s...
  9. DeepSpeeech is very old software. Vosk works just fine https://github.com/alphacep/vosk-api . People even run tiny Whisper on Pi, though they have to wait ages.
  10. …for short phrases. It is more focused on long transcription like podcasts. You can try Vosk instead https://github.com/alphacep/vosk-api
  11. https://github.com/alphacep/vosk-api Your app is neat in that it can record from the Lock Screen. I was curious to try out the new open ai model. Too often, iOS has a problem of too many clicks to do the most basic of things.
  12. Try https://github.com/alphacep/vosk-api/blob/master/csharp/demo...
  13. …words like "sponsor", "ad" or specific company names might already be a good enough heuristic. [1] https://github.com/alphacep/vosk-api
  14. …file on Linux) and comes with API support for a variety of languages: https://alphacephei.com/vosk/ https://github.com/alphacep/vosk-api Still, I've found that the Big players have much better recognition models, and the post-processing…
  15. https://github.com/alphacep/vosk-api
  16. …your computer is fast enough. https://github.com/ideasman42/nerd-dictation get speech models here: https://github.com/alphacep/vosk-api HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29972579
  17. …in terms of the Free/Open Source ecosystem I was very impressed with how well VOSK-API performed: https://github.com/alphacep/vosk-api Here's another project that builds on top of VOSK to provide a tighter integration with Linux:…
  18. Did you try Vosk https://github.com/alphacep/vosk-api or Wenet https://github.com/wenet-e2e/wenet
  19. Vosk https://github.com/alphacep/vosk-api
  20. For offline transcription try Vosk https://github.com/alphacep/vosk-api
  21. …... can also create subtitles for movies, transcription for lectures and interviews." * https://github.com/alphacep/vosk-api/blob/master/python/exam... * https://github.com/alphacep/vosk-api/blob/master/python/exam... *…
  22. …of the speech to text results. I tested it with a lightly modified version of this example script: https://github.com/alphacep/vosk-api/blob/master/python/exam... What I found particularly interesting was when you have the "partial"…
  23. …Meanwhile, the meat of this speech recognizition is Vosk, which is just Apache-2: https://github.com/alphacep/vosk-api/blob/master/COPYING
    comment by yencabulator · 2022-01-19 · in Nerd-dictation, hackable speech to text on Linux
  24. …to text engine that this project uses. Does anyone have experience using it? Is it any good? [0] https://github.com/alphacep/vosk-api
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    Vosk: Offline Speech Recognition for Android,iOS,RPi,Python,Java,C#,Node
    story by homarp · 2021-12-30 · 0 comments
  26. You could integrate vosk for local on-device private transcription. https://github.com/alphacep/vosk-api
  27. Jasper is very old and not very accurate. For offline recognition on RPi try something like Vosk https://github.com/alphacep/vosk-api
  28. …wav2letter ( https://github.com/facebookresearch/wav2letter ). ASG model/training. * Vosk ( https://github.com/alphacep/vosk-api ). Offline lightweight speech recognition API with support for 10 languages. And there are much more.
  29. Try https://github.com/alphacep/vosk-api . It supports 10 languages, works on Android and RPi and also has big and more accurate server models. Other good ones are https://github.com/daanzu/kaldi-active-grammar and https://talonvoice.com/…
  30. …on transcription per se, but they are open. [0] https://github.com/daanzu/kaldi-active-grammar [1] https://github.com/alphacep/vosk-api
  31. …[2]: https://cmusphinx.github.io/ [3]: https://github.com/mozilla/DeepSpeech [4]: https://github.com/alphacep/vosk-api [5]: https://github.com/kaldi-asr/kaldi [6]: https://ai.facebook.com/blog/a-highly-efficient-real-time-te... [7]: https:/
  32. Would be nice to test something opensource alongside. Like https://github.com/alphacep/vosk-api which runs on Android and iPhone offline.
    comment by nshm · 2020-06-02 · in Speech to Text on iPhone vs. Pixel
  33. You are welcome to try Vosk https://github.com/alphacep/vosk-api Advantages are: 1) Supports 7 languages - English, German, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Chinese, Russian 2) Works offline even on lightweight devices - Raspberry Pi, Android,…
  34. …you want to start with Kaldi it is probably easier to check kaldi-active-grammar mention above or https://github.com/alphacep/vosk-api
    comment by nshm · 2020-02-24 · in On Voice Coding