Small streaming speech-recognition models for phones, browsers and low-power devices
Moonshine is listed under Speech & Transcription Engines, in the AI Models & Local Execution category on Flocci AI Tools. Small streaming speech-recognition models for phones, browsers and low-power devices. It is free, with no paid plan attached, and it lives at github.com.
Moonshine is listed as fully free — there is no paid tier attached to it in the catalog. That makes it one of the 399 entries on Flocci AI Tools with no upgrade path built in.
Moonshine does 3 things the catalog singles out: Small streaming speech-recognition models for phones, browsers and low-power devices; low latency for live voice interfaces; free open-source weights and runtime.
faster-whisper is the closest free alternative: it sits in the same Speech & Transcription Engines sub-category and is free. FunASR, NVIDIA Canary-Qwen 2.5B and NVIDIA Parakeet also start free. The full list is on the alternatives page.
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