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Voys alternatives
2 open-source projects that already do this job. Free to use - not free to run, which is what the numbers on the right are for.
The projects
cjpais/Handy★29,961 GitHub starsMIT licenceAn offline speech-to-text application that captures microphone audio and transcribes locally.Open on GitHub ↗Zackriya-Solutions/meetily★29,544 GitHub starsMIT licenceLocal AI meeting assistant offering live transcription, speaker diarization, and local summarization.Open on GitHub ↗
What you give up either way
- Polish and UX refinements of a shipped product (animations, onboarding flows)
- Ongoing commercial support and beta user feedback loop
- Broad multi-language models and managed model updates
- Brand, discovery, and any closed-source optimizations the vendor may add
An open-source project doing the core job proves a replacement is possible. It does not prove it matches Voys, and it does not prove anyone has run it for a month. How we decide.