pyannote-audio (legacy)

by hbredin

Hervé Bredin's personal mirror of pyannote.audio.

TL;DR

Hervé Bredin's personal mirror of pyannote.audio.

Best for historical access to older pyannote releases. Pricing: free.

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

What it is

The pre-org mirror under the maintainer's personal namespace. MIT.

Best for: Historical access to older pyannote releases.
Watch out for: Use the pyannote/pyannote-audio org repo for current work.

Install / use

pip install pyannote.audio

Features

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

pyannote-audio (legacy) vs Whipscribe

Featurepyannote-audio (legacy)Whipscribe
CategoryOpen sourceTranscription APIs
Pricingfreefree beta
Speaker diarizationYesYes
Word timestampsYesYes
StreamingNoNo
Languages199
PlatformsLinux, macOSWeb, API, MCP

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