Rust Speech Recognition Voice AI Tools

Rust-based speech-to-text and audio processing libraries with local inference capabilities. Includes STT engines, noise reduction, and voice activity detection. Does NOT include cloud-dependent APIs, TTS, LLMs, or non-Rust implementations.

There are 25 rust speech recognition tools tracked. 1 score above 50 (established tier). The highest-rated is TrevorS/voxtral-mini-realtime-rs at 54/100 with 710 stars. 1 of the top 10 are actively maintained.

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#	Tool	Score	Tier	Stars	Language
1	TrevorS/voxtral-mini-realtime-rs Streaming speech recognition running natively and in the browser. A pure...	54	Established	710	Rust
2	darkautism/sensevoice-rs A Rust-based, SenseVoiceSmall	43	Emerging	27	Rust
3	mrtozner/vox Local voice AI framework for Rust. Whisper + LLM + TTS with no cloud dependencies.	42	Emerging	19	Rust
4	0xPD33/sonori Sonori is a fully local STT app for Linux (Wayland).	40	Emerging	17	Rust
5	izwi-ai/izwi On-device AI engine for transcription, TTS, and voice workflows.	40	Emerging	181	Rust
6	CodersCreative/faster-whisper-rs a rust crate for easily implementing faster-whisper stt into your rust programs.	36	Emerging	23	Rust
7	go-restream/zipenhancer-rs 🚀 High-Performance Real-Time Audio Noise Reduction Library - Rust...	34	Emerging	4	Rust
8	thewh1teagle/vad-rs Speech detection using silero vad in Rust	33	Emerging	30	Rust
9	masayoshi-louis/microsoft-speech-rs Rust wrapper for microsoft speech recognition	33	Emerging	4	C++
10	miuda-ai/sensevoice-cli Tool for speech recognition using sensevoice-small	31	Emerging	26	Rust
11	ganlvtech/bing-stt Rust implementation of bing "Search using voice" button speech recognition...	31	Emerging	3	Rust
12	cool-japan/oxiwhisper Pure Rust Whisper speech-to-text inference engine. Zero C/C++ dependencies.	27	Experimental	3	Rust
13	verbio-technologies/rust-verbio-speech-center Rust integration with Verbio Speech Center Cloud https://www.speech-center.verbio.com	25	Experimental	4	Rust
14	Epistates/rosellas Automatic speech recognition (ASR) for Apple Silicon	24	Experimental	2	Rust
15	josharsh/terminal-voice Voice input for the terminal. Speak, and it types. Local transcription,...	24	Experimental	—	Rust
16	emon555502/sonori Sonori is a fully local STT app for linux (wayland).	23	Experimental	2	Rust
17	speak-rs/speakly High-performance, extensible speech recognition toolkit for Rust — OpenAI...	22	Experimental	1	Rust
18	ringabout/scim [wip]Speech recognition tool-box written by Nim. Based on Arraymancer.	22	Experimental	23	Nim
19	BudEcosystem/WaaV Bud WaaV is high performant, Scalable Audio AI Gateway written in Rust.	17	Experimental	2	Rust
20	aectaan/speech-essence Offline speech recognition app.	17	Experimental	1	Rust
21	Mx0M/speech-to-text-rust A high-performance speech-to-text CLI tool written in Rust, powered by...	15	Experimental	—	Rust
22	upskaling/voice-keyboard an interface for nerd-dictation in gtk	13	Experimental	—	Rust
23	QuasarRyan/mlx-audio-bridge 这是一个基于 mlx-audio 的本地 REST 服务，用来实现兼容 OpenAI 的 TTS / STT 音频接口桥接层。	12	Experimental	1	Python
24	ringabout/scinim Docs for scim. https://ringabout.github.io/scinim/	11	Experimental	3	Nim
25	iridyne/cinnabar Cinnabar (朱砂) is an offline speech input tool designed specifically for...	11	Experimental	—	Rust

Comparisons in this category

sensevoice-rs and sensevoice-cli (43 vs 31)