Alternatives to David AI

Custom audio datasets for training and evaluating voice AI, scoped to your model's spec.

Open Somali AI datasets, speech and language models, benchmarks, and free bootcamps from an open research lab in Mogadishu.

MiniMax Audio turns text into multilingual speech through a REST API, with 10-second voice cloning, HD and turbo synthesis modes, and per-character billing.

Fish Audio turns text into expressive, emotionally controllable speech with voice cloning from 15 seconds of audio and a free developer TTS API.

Sarvam AI delivers Indic-language text-to-speech, speech-to-text, translation and document digitisation APIs built and operated in India.

Inworld AI is a research lab and inference provider for realtime voice — first-party TTS-2 and STT models plus zero-markup routing across 220+ LLMs.

Free GPL-V3 desktop app that runs speech recognition, subtitle translation, AI dubbing and video composition in one click.

Smallest.ai is a developer-first voice AI platform with TTS, STT, speech-to-speech models, telephony and hosting on one API-first bill.

Self-hosted, Deepgram-compatible speech-to-text API built on whisper.cpp, keeping your audio on your own servers.

Soniox speech AI API: real-time speech-to-text, TTS, and translation in 60+ languages.

Inclusive voice AI that recognizes non-standard speech for AAC, dictation, and accessible meetings.

Krisp pairs real-time AI noise cancellation with a bot-free AI note taker, accent conversion, and voice translation for calls.

Deepgram gives you speech-to-text, text-to-speech and a Voice Agent API from one vendor, priced per minute.

Free browser-based AI audio cleanup, recording, and text-style editing for podcasts and voiceovers.

Voice AI infrastructure for developers: speech-to-text, speech understanding, guardrails, and LLM routing on one API key.

One login for 55+ AI models — text, image, video, and audio generation in a single workspace with a shared token budget.

Meeting recording API that captures every participant on a separate audio stream for speaker-accurate transcripts of Zoom, Meet, Teams, Webex, GoTo and Slack

OpenAI's open-source speech recognition model: transcribe and translate 99+ languages, self-hosted for free or via API at $0.006/minute.

MacWhisper transcribes audio to text on your own Mac using on-device Whisper, Parakeet, and Qwen models — no audio leaves your machine.

Xiaomi's MiMo-V2.5-TTS Series: Chinese-English text-to-speech with voice design and cloning on the MiMo API.

Open-source desktop studio for voice cloning, voice design, dubbing, dictation and audiobooks — runs on your own machine.

Apple-only AI voice note app with unlimited on-device recording, live Chinese-English transcription and translation, and offline sync.

NoteGPT is an AI agent that summarizes YouTube videos, transcribes audio and video, and turns notes into slides, images, and voice — in one subscription.

Android AI voice-input keyboard with 10+ ASR engines, offline recognition, and LLM text cleanup.

Multilingual speech-to-text API with real-time streaming and audio intelligence bundled into one call.

Free, open-source desktop voice typing that turns your speech into polished text in any app via your own AI provider keys.

Universal-2 is AssemblyAI's async speech-to-text model for batch audio, priced at $0.15/hr — but you must pin 'universal_2' or requests route to Universal-3.5

Willow is AI voice dictation for Mac, Windows, and iPhone that turns natural speech into formatted text in any app.

SoundNote is an iOS voice recorder that turns spoken audio into searchable transcripts and AI summaries.

Seed Audio AI packages ByteDance Seed's TTS, ASR, and music research behind a server-side KIE audio API.