TensorFlow Text

by Google

Text ops + tokenizers integrated with TF ASR pipelines.

TL;DR

Text ops + tokenizers integrated with TF ASR pipelines.

Best for pre-processing for TF ASR / TTS recipes. Pricing: free.

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

What it is

The text-processing library for TensorFlow. Apache-2.0.

Best for: Pre-processing for TF ASR / TTS recipes.
Watch out for: Tightly coupled to TF versions.

Install / use

pip install tensorflow-text

Features

Speaker diarizationNo
Word-level timestampsYes
Streaming / real-timeNo
Languages supported99
HIPAA eligibleNo

TensorFlow Text vs Whipscribe

FeatureTensorFlow TextWhipscribe
CategoryOpen sourceTranscription APIs
Pricingfreefree beta
Speaker diarizationNoYes
Word timestampsYesYes
StreamingNoNo
Languages9999
PlatformsLinux, macOS, WindowsWeb, API, MCP

Alternatives to TensorFlow Text

OpenAI Whisper
OpenAI

The reference open-source multilingual ASR model from OpenAI.

OSS · MIT ★ 98.1k
whisper.cpp
Georgi Gerganov

C/C++ port of Whisper — runs on anything, from a Raspberry Pi to Apple Silicon.

OSS · MIT ★ 48.8k
faster-whisper
SYSTRAN

4× faster than reference Whisper using CTranslate2 — production sweet spot.

OSS · MIT ★ 22.3k

Whipscribe is a managed faster-whisper + whisperX service. If you want transcripts without running infrastructure, paste a URL or drop a file in the form below — you'll have a transcript in seconds.