Microsoft UniLM

by Microsoft

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TL;DR

Best for pulling SOTA speech encoder pretrains from Microsoft. Pricing: free.

Category
Open source
License
MIT
Stars
★ 22.2k
Last push
2026-01-23
Pricing
free
Platforms
Linux

What it is

Microsoft's foundation-models monorepo with several speech research releases. MIT.

Best for: Pulling SOTA speech encoder pretrains from Microsoft.
Watch out for: Mixed licenses per sub-project — some research-only.

Install / use

git clone https://github.com/microsoft/unilm

Features

Speaker diarizationNo
Word-level timestampsYes
Streaming / real-timeNo
Languages supported99
HIPAA eligibleNo

Links

GitHub repo ↗

Microsoft UniLM vs Whipscribe

FeatureMicrosoft UniLMWhipscribe
CategoryOpen sourceTranscription APIs
Pricingfree$4–$24 one-time packs (credits never expire) · $2 single unlock · 60 min free on signup
Speaker diarizationNoYes
Word timestampsYesYes
StreamingNoNo
Languages9999
PlatformsLinuxWeb, API, MCP

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