FunASR

by Alibaba DAMO Academy

Alibaba DAMO's Paraformer / SenseVoice / Whisper toolkit.

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TL;DR

Best for state-of-the-art Mandarin ASR + multilingual SenseVoice. Pricing: free.

What it is

Houses Paraformer, SenseVoice, CT-Transformer punctuation, and CAM++ speaker models. MIT.

Best for: State-of-the-art Mandarin ASR + multilingual SenseVoice.
Watch out for: Documentation primarily Chinese; some weights only on ModelScope.

Install / use

pip install funasr

Features

Speaker diarization	Yes
Word-level timestamps	Yes
Streaming / real-time	Yes
Languages supported	50
HIPAA eligible	No

Links

GitHub repo ↗

FunASR vs Whipscribe

Feature	FunASR	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	Yes	Yes
Word timestamps	Yes	Yes
Streaming	Yes	No
Languages	50	99
Platforms	Linux, Docker	Web, API, MCP

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