Meta FAIR Speech
Meta AI speech research — wav2vec 2.0 + HuBERT + MMS + Seamless origins.
Drop your audio. Transcript in seconds. First transcript free, then $4 = 300 min
Upstream is archived. Meta FAIR Speech’s repository has been set read-only by its owner, so there are no further releases, fixes, or security patches. The last commit landed 2025-09-30. It can still be cloned and run, and forks may be maintained elsewhere. See the repository.
Best for self-supervised speech + multilingual ASR + speech translation at frontier scale. Pricing: free.
What it is
Meta FAIR Speech released wav2vec 2.0, HuBERT, data2vec, XLS-R, MMS (1100+ languages), Seamless, and SeamlessM4T. The industry frontier for open multilingual speech.
Watch out for: MIT (fairseq) · per-model licenses vary (MMS = CC-BY-NC-4.0, Seamless = research) — check release.
Install / use
Features
| Speaker diarization | No |
| Word-level timestamps | No |
| Streaming / real-time | No |
| Languages supported | 1100 |
| HIPAA eligible | No |
Links
Meta FAIR Speech vs Whipscribe
| Feature | Meta FAIR Speech | Whipscribe |
|---|---|---|
| Category | Open source | Transcription APIs |
| Pricing | free | $4–$24 one-time packs (credits never expire) · $2 single unlock · 60 min free on signup |
| Speaker diarization | No | Yes |
| Word timestamps | No | Yes |
| Streaming | No | No |
| Languages | 1100 | 99 |
| Platforms | Web, GitHub | Web, API, MCP |
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