AI · alternatives · 2026
24 alternatives to 17MB model beats human experts at pronunciation scoring
This app lets you record or upload an audio clip and type the expected text to receive a detailed pronunciation score, word‑by‑word feedback, and phoneme analysis. It can also turn spoken audio int...
This is a pronunciation scoring model available on Hugging Face that weighs only 17MB. It automatically evaluates speech pronunciation and performs at a level comparable to human experts. The model is designed for… Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes.
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Built this because tones are killing my spoken Mandarin and I can't reliably hear my own mistakes. It's a 9M Conformer-CTC model trained on ~300h (AISHELL + Primewords), quantized to INT8 (11 MB), runs 100% in-browser via ONNX Runtime Web. Grades per-syllable pronunciation + tones with Viterbi forced alignment. Try it here: https://simedw.com/projects/ear/
Jan 2026 · simedw.com · its alternatives →
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Luke from ElevenLabs here. We just released Scribe Realtime v2, our new real-time Speech to Text model. We rebuilt it from the ground up around a new architecture that uses predictive transcription – it anticipates the next likely word before it’s spoken. That makes it both fast (around 150 ms latency) and highly accurate. Scribe v2 Realtime outperforms every low latency transcription model across 30 commonly used EU and Asian languages – 93.5% accuracy, compared to Gemini 2.5 Flash (91.4%), GPT-4o MiniTranscribe (90.7%), and Deepgram Nova 3 (85%). It supports 90+ languages including…
2025 · elevenlabs.io · its alternatives →
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Kitten TTS is an open-source series of tiny and expressive text-to-speech models for on-device applications. We are excited to launch a preview of our smallest model, which is less than 25 MB. This model has 15M parameters. This release supports English text-to-speech applications in eight voices: four male and four female. The model is quantized to int8 + fp16, and it uses onnx for runtime. The model is designed to run literally anywhere eg. raspberry pi, low-end smartphones, wearables, browsers etc. No GPU required! We're releasing this to give early users a sense of the latency and voices…
2025 · github.com · its alternatives →
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What accent do you have in English? I will tell in 30s
Nov 2025 · guru.getfluently.app · its alternatives →
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How small can a language model be while still doing something useful? I wanted to find out, and had some spare time over the holidays. Z80-μLM is a character-level language model with 2-bit quantized weights ({-2,-1,0,+1}) that runs on a Z80 with 64KB RAM. The entire thing: inference, weights, chat UI, it all fits in a 40KB .COM file that you can run in a CP/M emulator and hopefully even real hardware! It won't write your emails, but it can be trained to play a stripped down version of 20 Questions, and is sometimes able to maintain the illusion of having simple but terse conversations…
Dec 2025 · github.com · its alternatives →
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MARS5 TTS▲489Open-source, insanely prosodic text-to-speech model
2024 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Hey HN! We built Speech Meter as a tool to practice and improve English pronunciation. It uses AI to analyze your accent and score your pronunciation accuracy. It’s great for anyone who wants to practice their pronunciation in English. I’d love to hear your thoughts and suggestions for improvements. I really appreciate any feedback you could have (:
2023 · speechmeter.com · its alternatives →
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Speech Meter▲102Practice English pronunciation and get insights
2023 · speechmeter.com · its alternatives →
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BoldVoice▲346Accent coaching app for non-native English speakers
2021 · boldvoice.com · its alternatives →
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BoldVoice 2.0▲196Accent coaching app for non-native English speakers
2021 · boldvoice.com · its alternatives →
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Pinch▲535Hey HN! I’m Christian, daily lurker and some might remember our original launch post (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42935355). Today we're launching Pinch for Mac, which we believe is a step-change improvement in real-time AI translation. Our vision is to make cross-lingual conversations feel as natural as regular conversations. TL:DR During an online meeting, the app instantly transcribes and translates all audio you hear, and allows you to decide when you translate your voice and when you don't. It's invisible to others (like Granola), and works everywhere without any…
2025 · startpinch.com · its alternatives →
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First TTS model to support all 22 Indic languages + English
2024 · its alternatives →
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Fast, accurate STT for production-grade voice agents
May 2026 · ringg.ai · its alternatives →
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Stable Audio 2.0▲156One shot sample generation for the SignalsAndSorcery.com platform - shiehn/sas-sample-generator
2024 · stability.ai · its alternatives →
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Alt▲21Most AI notetakers have a 300 minute limit. This is not enough for uni students like me, or people who do remote work. So, I made a notetaker that runs the ASR model on-device. - Free with local ASR & LLM models - No transcription time limit - High accuracy for non-english speech, support for 100 languages - Real-time transcription - Zoom/Google Meet support - No internet needed - Efficient battery usage (~6 hours on full charge on my M2 Pro) This started as a small cli tool I made for myself, then many of my uni friends really liked it, so here it is as an app! I hope a lot of people…
Dec 2025 · altalt.io · its alternatives →
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New state-of-the-art in open source speech recognition
Mar 2026 · cohere.com · its alternatives →
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The most accurate streaming speech model for voice agents.
Mar 2026 · assemblyai.com · its alternatives →
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💥 Fast State-of-the-Art Tokenizers optimized for Research and Production - huggingface/tokenizers
2020 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Production ASR for noisy multilingual audio
Apr 2026 · microsoft.ai · its alternatives →
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2023 · lastmileai.dev · its alternatives →
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Speak and we'll guess your accent. Can you fool the oracle?
2024 · start.boldvoice.com · its alternatives →
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Explore large language models in 512MB of RAM. Contribute to jncraton/languagemodels development by creating an account on GitHub.
2023 · github.com · its alternatives →
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VoxCPM2▲110Open-source 48kHz TTS with voice design and cloning
Apr 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →
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