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Faster-Whisper-XXLWhisper-WebUI
Free

Free to download.

 Free

Free and open source under the Apache 2.0 licence.

Windows, Command line Windows, Linux, Web, Self-hosted
  • No Python setup needed
  • Transcribes offline on your own machine
  • Choice of three Whisper implementations
  • Exports SRT, WebVTT and plain text
  • Command-line only, with no built-in graphical interface
  • Large downloads and models
  • Speaker diarization needs a Hugging Face token and accepted model terms
  • DeepL translation needs an external API key
Downloadable app Self-hosted
Closed source Open source
License not stated License: Apache-2.0
No account needed No account needed
Works offline Not stated if it works offline

Checked October 2, 2026

Checked September 26, 2026

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