Meetings & transcription
whisper-playground
Real-time transcription you can run and take apart
★ 835
September 2025
MIT
Meetings & transcription
What we checked ourselves
Not copied from the project's own blurb. These are things we opened and verified, with the date.
- 7 Sept 2026We checked that the link to the project still resolves.
- 13 Sept 2026We read the licence text itself (LICENSE). No unusual restrictions were stated.
- 31 Aug 2026We read the project's own documentation and found signs that it may no longer be maintained.
Where this sits among the 67 tools we list in Meetings & transcription
- No API key required54 of 67
- Commercial use confirmed as allowed53 of 67
- Requires terminal commands45 that do not →
- Sends your input to the provider34 that do not →
Only 44 of the 67 meet all of the conditions above.
Counted from our own checks: every tool we list is examined against the same criteria.
What it does
A working playground for streaming speech-to-text — text appears while you're still talking — built on faster-whisper with Diart and Pyannote for speaker separation, across 99 languages. It's a starting point for building your own app rather than a finished one, and it expects you to reconcile the config files with your hardware. Quiet since September 2025. Accuracy and latency swing widely with machine and model size, so test in your language. MIT.
Summary based on the project's own description. The Japanese page has a fuller beginner guide: setup difficulty, what to prepare, and a step-by-step start.
Screenshots & visuals
Before you start
- Setup difficultyFor advanced users
- Command lineRequired
- API keyNot required
- Sends data onlineYes
Judged automatically from the project's own metadata. Always confirm on the official page.
whisper-playground FAQ
- Is whisper-playground free?
- Yes. It runs on your own machine, so there is no usage-based cost either.
- Do I need to install anything or write code to use whisper-playground?
- It needs the command line. If you are not comfortable typing commands, expect to get stuck during setup.
- Does whisper-playground work on a phone?
- No. It needs a computer.
- Can I use whisper-playground commercially?
- The licence is MIT, which permits commercial use. Conditions such as keeping the copyright notice still apply, so read the licence text before shipping it inside something.
How it compares
The conditions that decide whether you can actually use it, side by side.
| Tool | Command line | API key | Sends data out | Phone | Commercial use |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| whisper-playground (this page) | Required | Not needed | Yes | No | Yes |
| CrisperWhisper | Required | Not needed | Yes | No | Yes |
| call.md | Required | Required | Yes | No | Not verified |
| anarlog | Not needed | Required | Yes | No | Yes |
"Sends data out" means your input is uploaded to someone's server. Pick "No" when the material cannot leave your organisation.