Meetings & transcription

whisper-playground

Real-time transcription you can run and take apart

Visit official page 日本語で詳しく見る

Popularity

★ 834

Last update

September 2025

License / pricing

MIT

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 difficultySome setup needed
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.

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What it does

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.

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.