Best Alternatives to Whisper

FunASR

Runtime: uvx

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

Voicemode

Runtime: uvx

Natural voice conversations for AI assistants - STT/TTS via MCP

Whisper MCP

Runtime: npx

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

CrispASR Agent Transcriber

Runtime: npx

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

Voice Transcriber MCP Server

Runtime: Remote (SSE)

MCP server for transcribing Google Chat voice messages using Groq Whisper API

Frenchie

Runtime: npx

OCR, transcription, and image generation for AI agents via MCP.

MCP Listen

Runtime: npx

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

Spoken

Runtime: npx

Searches published podcasts, lists episodes, and retrieves named, timestamped transcripts as Markdown for AI workflows.

MCP Listen

Runtime: npx

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

Transcription

Runtime: npx

AI transcription from URLs. 99% accuracy, speaker diarization, 98+ languages.

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