Dev tools · alternatives · 2026
24 alternatives to Edith
An open-source voice assistant for vscode
Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Edith launched in 2020; newer entries below may have overtaken it.
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As the Home Assistant project says, it's the year of voice! I love Home Assistant and I've always thought the ESP BOX[0] hardware is cool. I finally got around to starting a project to use the ESP BOX hardware with Home Assistant and other platforms. Why? - It's actually "Alexa/Echo competitive". Wake word detection, voice activity detection, echo cancellation, automatic gain control, and high quality audio for $50 means with Willow and the support of Home Assistant there are no compromises on looks, quality, accuracy, speed, and cost. - It's cheap. With a touch LCD display, dual…
2023 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Hey HN! Braden here, creator of Whispering, an open-source speech-to-text app. I really like dictation. For years, I relied on transcription tools that were almost good, but they were all closed-source. Even a lot of them that claimed to be “local” or “on-device” were still black boxes that left me wondering where my audio really went. So I built Whispering. It’s open-source, local-first, and most importantly, transparent with your data. Your data is stored locally on your device, and your audio goes directly from your machine to a local provider (Whisper C++, Speaches, etc.) or your chosen…
2025 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Expressive cloned voices with text-to-speech in Unity
2020 · docs.resemble.ai · its alternatives →
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2020 · vocodes.com · its alternatives →
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Whispering▲195Open-source, local-first dictation you can trust
2025 · epicenter.so · its alternatives →
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Google Voice with Receptionist abilities, built on top of Twilio - SamyPesse/betty
2015 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Put code snippets into the code by voice
2021 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Fast voice-to-text on 92 languages
2023 · lingvanex.com · its alternatives →
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AI to make spoken audio sound professional
2024 · podcast.adobe.com · its alternatives →
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Highly expressive and natural speech generation model
2025 · microsoft.ai · its alternatives →
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Resemble Clone▲317Clone your voice with a few minutes of audio data
2020 · resemble.ai · its alternatives →
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Najva▲147Your free AI-powered voice assistant for Mac
2024 · bardiakhosravi.gumroad.com · its alternatives →
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Voxos is an open-source desktop voice assistant that aims to put Clippy to shame while supporting new desktop workflows powered by LLMs. Tired of copy and pasting ChatGPT responses between your web browser and IDE? Does your copilot not quite do what you need it to do? I invite you to give Voxos a try and maybe even become a contributor!
2024 · gitlab.com · its alternatives →
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A fast, open-source voice assistant powered by Groq, Cartesia, and Vercel.
2024 · swift-ai.vercel.app · its alternatives →
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Drag & drop voice generator tool
Dec 2025 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →
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SpeakoFlow▲95Free, open-source voice dictation and AI assistant, offline
Aug 2026 · speakoflow.com · its alternatives →
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