Flashlight Sequence

by Meta AI

Standalone CTC / sequence decoders from Flashlight.

TL;DR

Standalone CTC / sequence decoders from Flashlight.

Best for reference CTC beam-search decoders with LM rescoring. 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

C++ + Python CTC decoders extracted from Flashlight. BSD-3-Clause.

Best for: Reference CTC beam-search decoders with LM rescoring.
Watch out for: Narrow scope; pair with another model trainer.

Install / use

pip install flashlight-text

Features

Speaker diarizationNo
Word-level timestampsYes
Streaming / real-timeNo
Languages supported40
HIPAA eligibleNo

Flashlight Sequence vs Whipscribe

FeatureFlashlight SequenceWhipscribe
CategoryOpen sourceTranscription APIs
Pricingfreefree beta
Speaker diarizationNoYes
Word timestampsYesYes
StreamingNoNo
Languages4099
PlatformsLinuxWeb, API, MCP

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