WeSpeaker

by wenet-e2e

Production-style speaker embedding + verification toolkit.

TL;DR

Production-style speaker embedding + verification toolkit.

Best for open ResNet/CAM++ speaker embeddings for diarization pipelines. Pricing: free.

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

What it is

Sibling project to WeNet, focused on speaker recognition. Apache-2.0.

Best for: Open ResNet/CAM++ speaker embeddings for diarization pipelines.
Watch out for: Embeddings only — pair with clustering.

Install / use

pip install wespeaker

Features

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

WeSpeaker vs Whipscribe

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

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