AudioMAE
by Meta AI
Masked-Autoencoder pretrain for audio — feeds downstream ASR.
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Upstream is archived. AudioMAE’s repository has been set read-only by its owner, so there are no further releases, fixes, or security patches. The last commit landed 2024-04-05. It can still be cloned and run, and forks may be maintained elsewhere. See the repository.
TL;DR
Best for self-supervised audio pretraining baselines. Pricing: free.
Category
Open source
License
NOASSERTION
Stars
★ 672
Last push
2024-04-05
Pricing
free
Platforms
Linux
What it is
The AudioMAE paper code. CC-BY-NC-4.0 — non-commercial.
Best for: Self-supervised audio pretraining baselines.
Watch out for: Research; not a turnkey ASR engine.
Watch out for: Research; not a turnkey ASR engine.
Install / use
Features
| Speaker diarization | No |
| Word-level timestamps | Yes |
| Streaming / real-time | No |
| Languages supported | 1 |
| HIPAA eligible | No |
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AudioMAE vs Whipscribe
| Feature | AudioMAE | Whipscribe |
|---|---|---|
| Category | Open source | Transcription APIs |
| Pricing | free | $4–$24 one-time packs (credits never expire) · $2 single unlock · 60 min free on signup |
| Speaker diarization | No | Yes |
| Word timestamps | Yes | Yes |
| Streaming | No | No |
| Languages | 1 | 99 |
| Platforms | Linux | Web, API, MCP |
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