// Voice & music
whisperXv3.8.6
WhisperX: Automatic Speech Recognition with Word-level Timestamps (& Diarization)
Open source Maintained For everyone
IN ONE PARAGRAPH
whisperX is whisperX: Automatic Speech Recognition with Word-level Timestamps (& Diarization).
Good for: Anyone who wants AI to voice & music without setting anything up.
01How to start
- 1Open the official site or app store page (link above) and sign up.
- 2Use it in the browser or download the official app.
pip install whisperx - 3Pricing: Open source — start with the free tier if there is one.
02Alternatives & comparison
Compare side by side → faster-whisper Faster Whisper transcription with CTranslate2 ★ 26k SenseVoice Open-source SenseVoiceSmall model for Mandarin, Cantonese, English, Japanese, and Korean ASR, language ID, emotion recognition, and audio event detection. ★ 9.6k sherpa-onnx Speech-to-text, text-to-speech, speaker diarization, speech enhancement, source separation, and VAD using next-gen Kaldi with onnxruntime without Internet connection. Support embedded systems, Android, iOS, HarmonyOS, Raspberry Pi, RISC-V, RK NPU, Axera NPU, Ascend NPU, x86_64 servers, websocket server/client, support 12 programming languages ★ 15k OpenAI Whisper OpenAI open-source robust speech recognition model. ★ 111k VoiceStudio An open-source, fully local ElevenLabs alternative: voice cloning, voice design, video dubbing, dictation, transcription and audiobooks (646 languages per the README), default engine built on k2-fsa/OmniVoice; exposes a local API and MCP for agents; one-command desktop install on macOS / Linux. AGPL-3.0 ★ 81k