Athena STT

by ATHENA team

End-to-end speech recognition toolkit by ATHENA-OPEN-SOURCE.

TL;DR

End-to-end speech recognition toolkit by ATHENA-OPEN-SOURCE.

Best for researchers exploring TensorFlow-based E2E ASR + TTS. Pricing: free.

Category
Open source
License
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Stars
—
Last push
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Pricing
free
Platforms
Linux

What it is

A speech toolkit built on TensorFlow 2 with recipes for ASR, TTS, and KWS. Apache-2.0.

Best for: Researchers exploring TensorFlow-based E2E ASR + TTS.
Watch out for: Activity has slowed; TF1.x lineage.

Install / use

git clone https://github.com/athena-team/athena

Features

Speaker diarizationNo
Word-level timestampsYes
Streaming / real-timeNo
Languages supported20
HIPAA eligibleNo

Athena STT vs Whipscribe

FeatureAthena STTWhipscribe
CategoryOpen sourceTranscription APIs
Pricingfreefree beta
Speaker diarizationNoYes
Word timestampsYesYes
StreamingNoNo
Languages2099
PlatformsLinuxWeb, API, MCP

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