Best Omnilingual ASR Alternatives in 2025
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FireRedASR: Open-source speech recognition. Industrial-grade accuracy for Mandarin, English, dialects, & lyrics.
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Voxtral: Open, advanced AI speech understanding for developers. Go beyond transcription with integrated intelligence, function calling, and cost-effective deployment.
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Aero-1-Audio: Efficient 1.5B model for 15-min continuous audio processing. Accurate ASR & understanding without segmentation. Open source!
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Enhance your applications with AssemblyAI's powerful AI models for accurate transcription and understanding of human speech.
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Speakr is a personal, self-hosted web application designed for transcribing audio recordings (like meetings), generating concise summaries and titles, and interacting with the content through a chat interface.
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Discover Step - Audio, the first production - ready open - source framework for intelligent speech interaction. Harmonize comprehension and generation, support multilingual, emotional, and dialect - rich conversations.
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Most speech APIs break down outside the lab. Soniox transcribes, translates, and understands speech as it happens — in any environment. Production-ready from day one.
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OmniAI gives teams a unified API experience for building AI applications. Run entirely within your existing infrastructure.
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Unlock the power of accurate speech recognition with OpenAI's Whisper. Train and automate transcriptions in multiple languages effortlessly.
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Ultravox.ai: Next-gen enterprise Voice AI for human-like, real-time conversations. Scale massively, eliminate lag & power smarter agents.
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aiOla Enterprise Conversational AI: Voice-power your workflows. Understands complex jargon & noise for 95%+ accurate data & automation.
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Palabra AI delivers seamless, real-time AI speech translation with near-zero latency. Communicate globally, privately & accurately.
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OLMo 2 32B: Open-source LLM rivals GPT-3.5! Free code, data & weights. Research, customize, & build smarter AI.
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Liquid Audio: Unparalleled real-time speech-to-speech AI. Low-latency, high-fidelity ASR & TTS for developers to build natural voice apps.
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Meta's Llama 4: Open AI with MoE. Process text, images, video. Huge context window. Build smarter, faster!
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Reverb offers open-source speech recognition & diarization models. High accuracy ASR, speaker diarization, verbatimicity control. Ideal for podcast transcription, meeting minutes & video captioning. Redefines speech tech benchmark.
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Amberscript: Secure, accurate audio/video transcription & subtitles. Get 99%+ human-reviewed quality or fast AI for all your content needs.
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Kimi-Audio: Open-source foundation model for universal audio AI. Speech, analysis, generation – one framework. SOTA performance.
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Open-source Orpheus TTS: Human-quality speech synthesis with LLMs. Clone voices, control emotion, & stream in real-time. Customize & integrate easily!
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Bring content to life with ReadSpeaker's realistic AI voices. Flexible, secure text-to-speech for accessibility, engaging experiences, and custom branding.
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Orate is an artificial intelligence (AI) toolkit focused on speech, helping you create realistic, human-like speech and transcribe audio with a unified API that works with leading AI providers like OpenAI, ElevenLabs and AssemblyAI.
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MetaVoice-1B is a 1.2B parameter base model trained on 100K hours of speech for TTS (text-to-speech).
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OmniSQL: Text-to-SQL models (7B-32B) powered by 2.5M+ data. Generate SQL from natural language questions.
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Speechmatics: Real-time AI speech-to-text API. Unmatched 90%+ accuracy & speed for 55+ languages. Power enterprise voice apps.
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Break language barriers! Rask AI uses AI to translate & dub your videos into 130+ languages. Go global efficiently with VoiceClone.
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Improve speech recognition with Whisper, an AI system trained on massive multilingual data. Robust and versatile for multiple languages. Open-source models.
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Rev AI: The Most Accurate API for Transcripts - Unlock accurate and reliable transcription with Rev AI. Easy integration and diverse use cases for developers and businesses.
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Whisper is an ASR model developed by OpenAI, trained on a large dataset of diverse audio.
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Technology Innovation Institute has open-sourced Falcon LLM for research and commercial utilization.
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Create translations that follow your speech style. Translate from nearly 100 input languages into 35 output languages. This is a translation research demo powered by AI.
