Best Alternatives to Shorty

FunASR

Runtime: uvx

Transcribe local audio with FunASR and SenseVoice using private, on-device inference.

Agent Media Toolkit

Runtime: Remote (SSE)

15 media & data tools for AI agents: search, transcribe, subtitles, voiceover, translate & more.

Video Transcriber

Runtime: uvx

Transcribe videos from 1000+ platforms or local files offline, and search across every transcript

Ffvoice

Runtime: uvx

Offline speech-to-text & speaker diarization MCP server: transcribe audio on-device, no cloud

Translate documents, subtitles, pictures, audio and video with layout kept; transcribe recordings.

Transcribe audio and video into speaker-labelled transcripts, subtitles, clips, and cited Q&A.

Vocce transcribe

Runtime: npx

Transcribe audio/video to text + SRT/VTT via vocce's hosted Whisper. No API key required.

CrispASR Agent Transcriber

Runtime: npx

Transcribe local audio and video with CrispASR and local models only.

Whisper MCP

Runtime: npx

Local audio transcription using whisper.cpp. Transcribe with OpenAI Whisper models.

MCP Listen

Runtime: npx

Give your AI agents the ability to listen. Microphone capture and speech-to-text.

Transcribe MCP

Runtime: npx

Transcribe audio/video and find dead air. Pay-per-call in USDC over x402 — no account, no key.

Whisper Windows MCP

Runtime: npx

Transcribes local audio and video on Windows with whisper.cpp, Vulkan GPU support, batch jobs, subtitles, and no cloud APIs.