Coqui STT

by Coqui

Successor to Mozilla DeepSpeech, maintained by Coqui.

TL;DR

Successor to Mozilla DeepSpeech, maintained by Coqui.

Best for edge devices that already shipped DeepSpeech models. Pricing: free.

Category
Open source
License
—
Stars
—
Last push
—
Pricing
free
Platforms
Linux, macOS, Windows, Android

What it is

An end-to-end RNN-T derived from DeepSpeech with optimized mobile binaries. MPL-2.0.

Best for: Edge devices that already shipped DeepSpeech models.
Watch out for: Coqui shut down — repo is in maintenance-only mode.

Install / use

pip install stt

Features

Speaker diarizationNo
Word-level timestampsYes
Streaming / real-timeYes
Languages supported15
HIPAA eligibleNo

Coqui STT vs Whipscribe

FeatureCoqui STTWhipscribe
CategoryOpen sourceTranscription APIs
Pricingfreefree beta
Speaker diarizationNoYes
Word timestampsYesYes
StreamingYesNo
Languages1599
PlatformsLinux, macOS, Windows, AndroidWeb, API, MCP

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