Top 22 Rust speech-to-text Projects

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1. Handy

   1 22 31,387 9.6 Rust

   A free, open source, and extensible speech-to-text application that works completely offline.

   

   Project mention: How I Made a Local Voice Assistant Feel Instant | dev.to | 2026-08-07

   SpeakoFlow began as a fork of Handy, which gave me a solid local dictation foundation. I did not reinvent that part and I want to be clear about the credit. I built the assistant, screen vision, spoken answers, translation, memory, and the orchestration that turns those pieces into one experience.

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3. meetily

   2 17 30,679 9.2 Rust

   Privacy first, AI meeting assistant with 4x faster Parakeet/Whisper live transcription, speaker diarization, and Ollama summarization built on Rust. 100% local processing. no cloud required. Meetily (Meetly Ai - https://meetily.ai) is the #1 Self-hosted, Open-source Ai meeting note taker for macOS & Windows. Understand How to write meeting minutes

   

   Project mention: Yap – free offline voice dictation for Mac/Windows/Linux (Wispr Flow alt) | news.ycombinator.com | 2026-06-27

   I actually found this one today and will be adding it to Opensource Builders soon:

   https://github.com/Zackriya-Solutions/meetily

4. screenpipe

   3 18 21,556 10.0 Rust

   YC (S26) | Open Computer History | Record your screen continuously locally and provide context to your agents (Claude, Codex, Openclaw, Hermes, Runner...)

   

   Project mention: Launch HN: Screenpipe (YC S26) – Power your agents by your 24/7 screen recording | news.ycombinator.com | 2026-07-23

   Warning: this link automatically downloads a .dmg file without asking.

   https://screenpipe.com /how-to-install

5. voxtype

   4 2 1,447 9.8 Rust

   Voice-to-text with push-to-talk for Wayland compositors

   

   Project mention: Pure C, CPU-only inference with Mistral Voxtral Realtime 4B speech to text model | news.ycombinator.com | 2026-02-09

6. opentypeless

   5 2 513 9.4 Rust

   Open-source AI voice typing for macOS, Windows, and Linux. Press a hotkey, speak naturally, get polished text in any app.

   

   Project mention: Show HN: OpenTypeless – open-source AI voice input that types into any app | news.ycombinator.com | 2026-03-01

7. parakeet-rs

   6 2 393 9.2 Rust

   very fast speech-to-text, diarization, streaming (even in CPU) with NVIDIA Parakeet in Rust

   

   Project mention: Local, CPU-Friendly, High-Quality TTS (Text-to-Speech) with Kokoro | news.ycombinator.com | 2026-07-07

   Fun... This is something I actually care about...

   I used to keep a version of whisperx around, because I think it's important to have not just transcription, but also timing and speaker identification (e.g. for subtitles)

   Lately, though, I coded up an OpenAI compatible server for parakeet-rs ( https://github.com/altunenes/parakeet-rs ) and I've been using it with OpenWhispr (a desktop app for transcription that handles all sorts of neat thing).

   I'm doing CPU-only transcription (because I use my GPUs for other stuff and haven't gotten around to adding in the GPU-path), but it's incredibly empowering to be able to have local transcriptions at will.

8. LangHelper

   7 1 349 6.6 Rust

   Striving to create a great Application with full functions of learning languages by ChatGPT, TTS, STT and other awesome AI models, supports talking, speaking assessment, memorizing words with contexts, Listening test, so on.

   

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10. sayna

    8 13 313 9.3 Rust

    Sayna is a unified Voice Layer for AI Agents with a seemless integration to an existing agentic frameworks

    

    Project mention: Ask HN: What's the current best local/open speech-to-speech setup? | news.ycombinator.com | 2026-01-23

11. ostt

    9 1 295 9.6 Rust

    Open source voice-to-text for the terminal. Record from a hotkey, transcribe with any provider, pipe to AI or shell commands.

    

    Project mention: OSTT – Visual terminal based speech-to-text for Omarchy/Any Linux/Mac | news.ycombinator.com | 2025-12-15

12. SpeakoFlow

    10 1 234 9.4 Rust

    Free, open-source offline voice dictation for Windows, macOS, and Linux. A Wispr Flow alternative with an AI assistant that can read your screen on request and answer questions.

    

    Project mention: How I Made a Local Voice Assistant Feel Instant | dev.to | 2026-08-07

    View SpeakoFlow on GitHub

13. vox

    11 1 159 8.7 Rust

    A universal AI toolkit for high-performance Speech-to-Text (STT) and Text-to-Speech (TTS) processing, designed for low-latency and easy model integration. (by rtk-ai)

    

    Project mention: Warcraft III Peon Voice Notifications for Claude Code | news.ycombinator.com | 2026-02-11

14. whisper-overlay

    12 1 87 7.4 Rust

    A wayland overlay providing speech-to-text functionality for any application via a global push-to-talk hotkey

    

15. deepgram-rust-sdk

    13 1 66 6.6 Rust

    Community Rust SDK for Deepgram.

    

16. fnkey

    14 1 49 7.3 Rust

    Hold Fn key, speak, paste transcribed text. macOS menu bar app.

    

    Project mention: Voice Transcription is a Superpower for AI-Assisted Coding | dev.to | 2025-12-26

    FnKey (what I built): github.com/evoleinik/fnkey

17. vox

    15 1 43 7.7 Rust

    Local voice AI framework for Rust. Whisper + LLM + TTS with no cloud dependencies. (by mrtozner)

    

    Project mention: Vox – Local Voice AI Framework in Rust (STT and TTS and VAD) | news.ycombinator.com | 2026-02-15

18. kesha-voice-kit

    16 1 38 - Rust

    Give your tools a voice — speech to text and back, 25 languages, up to ~19× faster than Whisper. On your machine.

    

    Project mention: Polly wants a transcript: giving agents ears and a voice, on your own machine | dev.to | 2026-05-31

    It's MIT, it's on GitHub and npm, and bun add -g @drakulavich/kesha-voice-kit is the whole install.

19. feros

    17 1 34 - Rust

    Open-source voice agent OS. Rust runtime, AI-driven builder, sub second latency. Self-host everything.

    

    Project mention: We Open-Sourced Our Production Voice AI Stack (Rust Runtime, Sub-Second Latency) | dev.to | 2026-04-15

    TL;DR — We open-sourced Feros, a full Voice Agent OS you can self-host in one docker compose up. It has a Rust voice engine for sub-second latency, a Python control plane, a Next.js dashboard, and an AI builder that writes your agent for you. Apache 2.0.

20. sumi

    18 1 26 9.6 Rust

    Sumi — Free, open-source voice dictation for macOS. Local-first Whisper + LLM polish, with built-in free cloud APIs.

    

    Project mention: Sumi – Open-source voice-to-text with local AI polishing | news.ycombinator.com | 2026-03-09

    - Optional BYOK cloud: STT via Groq/OpenAI/Deepgram/Azure, polish via OpenRouter/Groq/Gemini/SambaNova

    I built this because the existing tools (Wispr Flow, SuperWhisper) are cloud-only for AI processing and subscription-based. I wanted local inference for both stages, custom prompt rules per app, and source code I could actually read.

    Rust, GPLv3.

    Website: https://sumivoice.com/en/?utm_source=hackernews&utm_medium=forum&utm_campaign=launch_2026q1&utm_content=show_hn

    Source: https://github.com/alan890104/sumi

21. t2t

    19 1 17 8.1 Rust

    Voice-to-text with MCP support. System-wide dictation (hold fn) and AI agent mode (hold fn+ctrl) that connects to any MCP server. Cross-platform desktop app with local Whisper transcription.

    

    Project mention: Show HN: T2T – Voice-to-text with MCP support local and cross-platform | news.ycombinator.com | 2025-12-23

    - Svelte 5 frontend

    The MCP client runs entirely in Rust, so it works in both dev and production builds. Tool execution happens locally via JSON-RPC.

    *Open source:* https://github.com/acoyfellow/t2t

    I'd love feedback on the architecture, especially the local MCP client approach. Also curious if others find the MCP integration useful or if I'm overcomplicating things.

    What do you think?

22. loofah

    20 1 6 10.0 Rust

    Free, open-source Markdown knowledge vault for macOS. Record and transcribe meetings locally, keep notes as files you can carry across tools, and give agents read-only MCP access. No accounts, subscriptions, telemetry, or cloud backend. (by bart6114)

    

    Project mention: Show HN: Loofah, meeting transcription into a local Markdown vault | news.ycombinator.com | 2026-08-28

23. conversationaly

    21 1 6 9.5 Rust

    Privacy-first AI meeting assistant. Captures mic + system audio, transcribes live, and writes the summary — entirely on your machine. Tauri/Rust core, transcribe.cpp for STT, bundled llama.cpp. No account, no cloud, no telemetry.

    

    Project mention: Conversationaly – Privacy-First AI Meeting Assistant | news.ycombinator.com | 2026-08-19

24. hush

    22 1 1 - Rust

    Hold fn, talk, release. Local Whisper dictation for macOS — no cloud, no always-on mic. Pastes at your cursor. (by djmunro)

    

    Project mention: Hush – local push-to-talk dictation for macOS, no cloud, pastes at cursor | news.ycombinator.com | 2026-05-14

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