A new approach to speech recognition in the DAW
ReaSpeech Lite is an open-source plugin for REAPER that does speech-to-text transcription. If you add it to one or more tracks and click the “Process” button, it will transcribe the speech on those tracks and display the results in a table. You can use the table to quickly navigate your project with searching, filtering, and sorting features. The transcript is saved with your project, and can additionally be used to create markers, regions, or tracks containing text notes.
Visit the GitHub Project to get ReaSpeech Lite now!
Features
ReaSpeech Lite is a simple tool that aims to have a minimal but powerful feature set. The following features are currently available:
Transcription
- Powered by the whisper.cpp speech recognition model
- Select between Small, Medium, Large, and Large v3 Turbo models
- Models are automatically downloaded as needed
- Language detection with manual override
- Optional translation to English
Offline processing
ReaSpeech Lite automatically downloads the whisper.cpp models that are used to do the transcription. Aside from these downloads, it operates 100% offline. Your source audio is never sent to the cloud.
GPU acceleration
ReaSpeech Lite supports GPU acceleration for fast transcription using CUDA on Windows/Linux and Metal on macOS. GPU acceleration makes a significant impact on processing time.
Minimal dependencies
Besides CUDA drivers (where applicable), ReaSpeech Lite does not require installing any other software such as Docker, PyTorch, or FFmpeg. Simply run the installer and use ReaSpeech Lite like any other VST3 plugin.
Transcript view
- Efficient results table that can scale to large transcripts
- Searching, filtering, and sorting of results
- Navigation and auto-play of project by clicking text links
- Automatic adjustment of timestamps in response to media item edits (splitting, cropping, moving)
- Display of colorized, graphical confidence scores to help determine the accuracy of the results
Persistence
- Saves transcripts and other settings when project is saved
- Creates markers, regions, and notes tracks in REAPER project
Compatibility
- Compatible with Mac, Windows, and Linux
- GPU acceleration available on all supported platforms
- Built as a VST3 with ARA 2.0, enabling possible use outside of REAPER (e.g. Cubase)
Get ReaSpeech Lite!
Visit our ReaSpeech Lite GitHub Project for instructions on how to download, install, and use ReaSpeech Lite.
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