Jinfer-Parakeet is a JVM implementation of NVIDIA's Parakeet automatic speech recognition engine that runs efficiently on standard CPUs without requiring external runtimes. It offers streaming transcription with word-level timing and confidence scores, multilingual support, and competitive performance matching native implementations like parakeet.cpp.
Fluentry is a local voice-to-text dictation tool for Linux and Wayland that runs speech recognition models on your machine without uploading data. It supports dozens of languages, integrates with PipeWire and system keyboards, and includes features like custom dictionary management, filler-word removal, and optional local grammar correction through language models.