Alternatives to Speaches
A self-hosted, OpenAI API-compatible server for local speech-to-text, translation and text-to-speech models. The listings below can replace it for an important use case. Each note says what changes if you switch.
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Speaches
A self-hosted, OpenAI API-compatible server for local speech-to-text, translation and text-to-speech models.
Replacements
Listings that take over the same core job as Speaches.
Kokoro-FastAPI
A Dockerized, OpenAI-compatible server for running the Kokoro-82M text-to-speech model on your own hardware.
Kokoro-FastAPI provides an OpenAI-compatible speech endpoint in prebuilt Docker images, but it covers only Kokoro text-to-speech, not transcription or translation.
AllTalk TTS
A local text-to-speech server with voice cloning, model finetuning, a settings page and a JSON API.
AllTalk TTS is an AGPL-3.0 local text-to-speech server with a JSON API, voice cloning and finetuning, but it does not provide speech-to-text.
Cartesia
An AI voice platform with an API for real-time text-to-speech, speech-to-text and voice agents.
Cartesia is a paid cloud API covering text-to-speech, transcription and voice agents with low latency, replacing local models with a hosted service.
ElevenLabs
An AI voice platform for text to speech, voice cloning, dubbing, speech to text and music.
ElevenLabs offers text to speech, speech to text and voice cloning through an API and SDKs, but it runs only as an online service.
Similar software
Related functionality, not a direct replacement.
Whisper
An open-source speech recognition model from OpenAI for transcribing and translating audio on your own machine.
whisper.cpp
C/C++ port of OpenAI's Whisper for fast offline speech-to-text on your own hardware.
Piper
A fast neural text-to-speech engine that runs locally, even on modest hardware like a Raspberry Pi.
Kokoro
Small, fast open-weight text-to-speech model you can run locally.
Scriberr
A self-hosted, offline audio transcription app that runs AI speech recognition on your own hardware.
Whishper
A self-hosted web app for transcribing, translating and editing subtitles locally with Whisper models.
