Design & Creative · Audio & Voice Production
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Whisper in C++ — fast on plain hardware and excellent on Apple Silicon, with no Python and no CUDA.
★ 54.5kFreeFASYSTRAN/faster-whisperWhisper speech-to-text, rebuilt to run about four times faster and on less memory.
★ 25.9kFreeWHm-bain/whisperXSpeech-to-text with a start and end time on every word, plus optional speaker labels.
★ 24.4kFreePYjianchang512/pyvideotransDesktop GUI for video translation and dubbing with a batch queue — the least programmer-hostile bilingual option.
★ 19.3kFreeTStsduck/tsduckReads, measures and rewrites the video streams used by digital television, as a set of small command-line tools and a pipeline.
★ 1.1kFreeA second choice: they cover part of this job or are a building block for it.
A document parser that turns PDFs, office files, images and audio into clean structured text.
★ 68.7kFreeVOdebpalash/VoiceStudioVoice cloning, dubbing, dictation and transcription, all running on one local machine.
★ 64kFreeMAdatalab-to/markerA command-line converter that turns PDFs into Markdown or structured data with high accuracy.
★ 40.4kFreeOCocrmypdf/OCRmyPDFIt makes a scanned PDF searchable without changing how it looks.
★ 35kFreeCHresemble-ai/chatterboxOpen-source text-to-speech that clones a voice from a short clip and reads it back in 23 languages, Russian included.
★ 27kFreeVIHuanshere/VideoLingoOne pipeline that transcribes a video, translates the subtitles and can dub the result in a synthetic voice.
★ 18.8kFreeSUSubtitleEdit/subtitleeditThe mature desktop subtitle editor — waveform retiming, line-by-line translation, and every format converted.
★ 14.6kFreeEDrany2/edge-ttsA Python tool that turns text into spoken audio using Microsoft Edge's online voices, with no account and no key.
★ 12.2kFreePYpyannote/pyannote-audioIt works out who spoke when in a recording.
★ 10.7kFreePIOHF-Voice/piper1-gplFast local neural speech on plain CPU — the licensed replacement for edge-tts's grey area.
★ 5.9kFreeAUWyattBlue/auto-editorA command-line tool that removes the silent parts of a video or audio file automatically.
★ 5.5kFreePImetabrainz/picardIdentifies music files against the MusicBrainz database and writes the correct details into them.
★ 5.3kFreeSHpaulpacifico/shutter-encoderA desktop window over FFmpeg for converting, trimming and processing video, audio and images.
★ 2.8kFreeAUbbc/audiowaveformIt turns a sound file into a picture of itself, or into the numbers behind that picture.
★ 2.2kFreeFAcdgriffith/FastFlixA small window for HEVC and AV1 video encoding that drives an FFmpeg you install yourself.
★ 1.6kFreeM4sandreas/m4b-toolMerges, splits and chapterises audiobook files from the command line.
★ 1.6kFreeFFslhck/ffmpeg-normalizeNormalises every video to the EBU R128 loudness YouTube expects — ten minutes, and viewers stop reaching for the volume.
★ 1.5kFreeTAtaglib/taglibThe C++ library that reads and writes the metadata inside audio files.
★ 1.5kFreePYnomadkaraoke/python-audio-separatorOne command that splits a recording into separate voice and music tracks.
★ 1.4kFreeTItinytag/tinytagIt reads the hidden information inside audio files from Python, with no other software needed.
★ 841FreeOne job at a time: the paid tools worth paying for, the free ones you can run yourself, and who should pick which.
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