Salesforce CTRL

by Salesforce

Conditional-LM — historical companion to speech-text research.

TL;DR

Conditional-LM — historical companion to speech-text research.

Best for reference conditional-LM that has been used in ASR-post-correction studies. Pricing: free.

Category
Open source
License
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Stars
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Last push
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Pricing
free
Platforms
Linux

What it is

The CTRL paper code. BSD-3-Clause.

Best for: Reference conditional-LM that has been used in ASR-post-correction studies.
Watch out for: Mostly historical.

Install / use

git clone https://github.com/salesforce/CTRL

Features

Speaker diarizationNo
Word-level timestampsYes
Streaming / real-timeNo
Languages supported1
HIPAA eligibleNo

Salesforce CTRL vs Whipscribe

FeatureSalesforce CTRLWhipscribe
CategoryOpen sourceTranscription APIs
Pricingfreefree beta
Speaker diarizationNoYes
Word timestampsYesYes
StreamingNoNo
Languages199
PlatformsLinuxWeb, API, MCP

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