From: KoljaB <github.com/KoljaB>Newsgroups: alt.freeweights.toolsSubject:

RealtimeSTT

Release: v1.2.0 (2026-11-11)Commit: 3574c24License: Apache-2.0

A robust, efficient, low-latency speech-to-text library with advanced voice activity detection, wake word activation and instant transcription.

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FactsLicenseApache-2.0LanguagePythonKindspeechRelease2026-11-11PlatformsLinux, macOS, WindowsLinks to the projectpermissive

$ pip install "RealtimeSTT[faster-whisper]"

Overview Install Use with Freeweights License Provenance

Overview

Low-latency speech-to-text with wake words and voice activity detection.

Kind: speech
License: Apache-2.0
Language: Python
Platforms: Linux, macOS, Windows
Latest release: v1.2.0 (2026-11-11)
Repository: KoljaB/RealtimeSTT

Topicspythonrealtimespeech-to-text

Freeweights links to the project and does not host tool binaries.

Install

$ pip install "RealtimeSTT[faster-whisper]"

$ pip install "RealtimeSTT[faster-whisper]"

Checked against the project's README on 2026-11-15. The project's own instructions win when they differ: install docs

Freeweights links to the project and does not host tool binaries.

Use with Freeweights

Run a catalog model

Download the weights from Freeweights first (HF_ENDPOINT or fw.py), then point the tool at the folder.

Catalog models it can run (189)

BUD-E-Whisper BUD-E-Whisper_V1.1 distil-large-v2 distil-large-v3 distil-large-v3.5 distil-large-v3.5-ct2 distil-large-v3.5-ONNX distil-medium.en distil-medium.en_timestamped distil-small.en distil-small.en distil-small.en_timestamped distil-whisper-large-v3_openvino_int8 granite-4.0-1b-speech-ONNX granite-speech-3.2-8b granite-speech-3.3-2b granite-speech-3.3-8b granite-speech-4.1-2b-plus granite-speech-5.0-2b granite-speech-5.0-2b-ONNX hubert-xlarge-ls960-ft kb-whisper-base kb-whisper-base-ONNX kb-whisper-large kb-whisper-large-ONNX kb-whisper-medium kb-whisper-medium-ONNX kb-whisper-small kb-whisper-small-ONNX kb-whisper-tiny kb-whisper-tiny-ONNX kotoba-whisper-bilingual-v1.0 kotoba-whisper-bilingual-v1.0-ONNX kotoba-whisper-v2.2 kotoba-whisper-v2.2-ONNX MiMo-V2.5-ASR MiMo-V2.5-ASR-MLX-8bit moonshine-base moonshine-base-ONNX moonshine-tiny moonshine-tiny-ONNX nb-whisper-base nb-whisper-base-ONNX nb-whisper-small nb-whisper-small-ONNX nemotron-3.5-asr-streaming-0.6b parakeet-ctc-0.6b parakeet-ctc-0.6b-ONNX parakeet-tdt_ctc-0.6b-ja parakeet-tdt_ctc-110m parakeet-tdt-0.6b-v2 parakeet-tdt-0.6b-v3 parakeet-tdt-0.6b-v3 parakeet-tdt-1.1b paza-Phi-4-multimodal-instruct paza-whisper-large-v3-turbo Phi-4-multimodal-instruct-onnx Qwen3-ASR-0.6B Qwen3-ASR-0.6B-4bit Qwen3-ASR-0.6B-8bit

and 129 more.

License

License: Apache-2.0
Class: Permissive

Read the license

Freeweights links to the project and does not host tool binaries.

Provenance

From: KoljaB <github.com/KoljaB>Newsgroups: alt.freeweights.toolsSubject: RealtimeSTTRelease: v1.2.0 (2026-11-11)Commit: 3574c24License: Apache-2.0

Repository: KoljaB/RealtimeSTT
Pinned release: v1.2.0, 2026-11-11
Release commit: 3574c247c531b8f6ff1f595b319eb400ba499f82
Default branch: master 3574c247c531b8f6ff1f595b319eb400ba499f82
Fetched: 2026-11-15
Takedowns: None.

Freeweights links to the project and does not host tool binaries.

Get it

Install Project repository

Works with

189 catalog models. See the list