Dev tools · alternatives · 2026
24 alternatives to Swiftink
Instant AI transcription for Obsidian
Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Swiftink launched in 2024; newer entries below may have overtaken it.
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MacWhisper▲123High quality text transcription with OpenAI's whisper on Mac
2023 · goodsnooze.gumroad.com · its alternatives →
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APIs to automatically transcribe and understand audio
2017 · assemblyai.com · its alternatives →
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Free AI transcription: convert video and audio to text, translate into 120 languages, download SRT, VTT, ASS or TXT, or export the video with subtitles on it.
2022 · freesubtitles.ai · its alternatives →
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I wanted to share our new speech to text model, and the library to use them effectively. We're a small startup (six people, sub-$100k monthly GPU budget) so I'm proud of the work the team has done to create streaming STT models with lower word-error rates than OpenAI's largest Whisper model. Admittedly Large v3 is a couple of years old, but we're near the top the HF OpenASR leaderboard, even up against Nvidia's Parakeet family. Anyway, I'd love to get feedback on the models and software, and hear about what people might build with it.
Feb 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Hi HN! Last year the project I launched here got a lot of good feedback on creating speech to speech AI on the ESP32. Recently I revamped the whole stack, iterated on that feedback and made our project fully open-source—all of the client, hardware, firmware code. This Github repo turns an ESP32-S3 into a realtime AI speech companion using the OpenAI Realtime API, Arduino WebSockets, Deno Edge Functions, and a full-stack web interface. You can talk to your own custom AI character, and it responds instantly. I couldn't find a resource that helped set up a reliable, secure websocket (WSS) AI…
2025 · github.com · its alternatives →
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WhisperFusion builds upon the capabilities of open source tools WhisperLive and WhisperSpeech to provide a seamless conversations with an AI chatbot.
2024 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Free & fast alternative to Wispr Flow. Contribute to zachlatta/freeflow development by creating an account on GitHub.
Feb 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Extremely accurate, AI powered voice-to-text
2024 · superwhisper.com · its alternatives →
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Hi HN, OpenAI recently released a model for automatic speech recognition called Whisper [0]. I decided to reimplement the inference of the model from scratch using C/C++. To achieve this I implemented a minimalistic tensor library in C and ported the high-level architecture of the model in C++. The entire code is less than 8000 lines of code and is contained in just 2 source files without any third-party dependencies. The Github project is here: https://github.com/ggerganov/whisper.cpp With this implementation I can very easily build and run the model - “make…
2022 · github.com · its alternatives →
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WhisperWizard▲149Speech to text with smarter transcription
2024 · whisperwizard.com · its alternatives →
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GoWhisper▲150Cross-platform, privacy-first audio transcription app
2023 · gowhisper.io · its alternatives →
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Whisper Notes▲115Offline AI Speech to Text Transcription for iOS & macOS
2025 · whispernotes.app · its alternatives →
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Next-Gen Speech-to-Text with Unmatched Performance
2023 · deepgram.com · its alternatives →
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On-device or Cloud transcription powered by OpenAI's Whisper
2023 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →
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WhisperUI▲120Most affordable text-to-speech and speech-to-text service
2024 · whisperui.com · its alternatives →
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AI Audio Kit▲92Easy audio transcription from your macOS desktop
2024 · aiaudiokit.pages.dev · its alternatives →
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WhisperAPI▲77$0.15/hr audio transcription API powered by OpenAI Whisper
2022 · whisperapi.com · its alternatives →
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I was laid off recently and, instead of looking for another job right away, I decided to build something I always wanted: a transcription tool that respects user privacy. Existing transcription tools often require internet connectivity, send your private audio to cloud servers, or lock you into monthly subscriptions. I wanted something different—so I built WhisperBuddy, a privacy-first AI transcription app that runs entirely on your machine. WhisperBuddy uses OpenAI’s Whisper model (see: https://github.com/openai/whisper). While the model may not always deliver the…
2025 · whisperbuddy.com · its alternatives →
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Use OpenAI Whisper for free audio transcription
2024 · whisperapi.com · its alternatives →
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Voicetapp▲69Transcribe any speech into text with high accuracy
2022 · voicetapp.com · its alternatives →
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