Fact · Speech recognition
The SpeechRecognition package lists Vosk and OpenAI's Whisper among the engines it can call, both marked as working offline, alongside the Google Speech Recognition endpoint.
Checked against its source on October 17, 2026
In the source's own words
“Vosk API (works offline) OpenAI whisper (works offline)”
SpeechRecognition: Library for performing speech recognition, with support for several engines and APIs, online and offline, Anthony Zhang (Uberi), GitHub, project README, n.d., Engine and API support list.
Open the original- What it measures
- The README lists the supported engines under the heading 'Speech recognition engine/API support', with CMU Sphinx, Google Speech Recognition, Google Cloud Speech API, Wit.ai, Microsoft Azure Speech and others.
- What it does not show
- Being in the list means the package can call the engine. Accuracy, speed and language support depend on the engine and the model you choose.