FunASR

by Alibaba DAMO Academy

Alibaba DAMO's Paraformer / SenseVoice / Whisper toolkit.

TL;DR

Alibaba DAMO's Paraformer / SenseVoice / Whisper toolkit.

Best for state-of-the-art Mandarin ASR + multilingual SenseVoice. Pricing: free.

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

What it is

Houses Paraformer, SenseVoice, CT-Transformer punctuation, and CAM++ speaker models. MIT.

Best for: State-of-the-art Mandarin ASR + multilingual SenseVoice.
Watch out for: Documentation primarily Chinese; some weights only on ModelScope.

Install / use

pip install funasr

Features

Speaker diarizationYes
Word-level timestampsYes
Streaming / real-timeYes
Languages supported50
HIPAA eligibleNo

FunASR vs Whipscribe

FeatureFunASRWhipscribe
CategoryOpen sourceTranscription APIs
Pricingfreefree beta
Speaker diarizationYesYes
Word timestampsYesYes
StreamingYesNo
Languages5099
PlatformsLinux, DockerWeb, API, MCP

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