The best pyannote alternatives
3 tools that do a similar job to pyannote, 3 of them open source. Each entry says what it does and who it suits, so you can pick the one that fits instead of the most famous.
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pyannotePython toolkit for figuring out who spoke when in an audio recording, using pretrained PyTorch models.
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FunASR
Open source · MIT · ★ 20.9k
Open-source speech-to-text toolkit with streaming, voice detection, punctuation and speaker pipelines.
Best for: Developers who want to transcribe audio in Python with a pretrained model; Teams planning a move away from Whisper or a cloud ASR provider, who want to benchmark on their own audio
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Silero VAD
Open source · MIT · ★ 10.6k
Pre-trained voice activity detector that finds where speech occurs in audio, for Python, ONNX, and other runti
Best for: Developers adding speech detection to Python apps; Teams building telephony, call-center, or voice bot pipelines
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Spleeter
Open source · MIT · ★ 28.5k
Python library and command-line tool that splits music into vocals, drums, bass and other tracks.
Best for: Musicians or producers who want quick vocal or accompaniment separation from a song; Developers adding stem separation to an audio pipeline in Python
How we pick: tools in the same category that solve the same problem, projects that name each other as alternatives, and open-source projects that describe themselves as an alternative to pyannote. We don't take payment for placement.