Russian Open STT
20kh Russian ASR corpus — the largest open Russian-language speech dataset.
Drop your audio. Transcript in seconds. First transcript free, then $4 = 300 min
Upstream is archived. Russian Open STT’s repository has been set read-only by its owner, so there are no further releases, fixes, or security patches. The last commit landed 2022-03-11. It can still be cloned and run, and forks may be maintained elsewhere. See the repository.
Best for russian ASR training and evaluation at scale. Pricing: free.
What it is
Open STT (Silero) is a 20k-hour Russian ASR corpus assembled from YouTube + audiobooks + public speech + radio. License: CC BY-NC 4.0.
Watch out for: CC BY-NC 4.0 · NON-COMMERCIAL · multiple subsets (audiobooks, YouTube, public speech). Cite: Veysov, 2019.
Install / use
git clone https://github.com/snakers4/open_sttFeatures
| Speaker diarization | No |
| Word-level timestamps | No |
| Streaming / real-time | No |
| Languages supported | 1 |
| HIPAA eligible | No |
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Russian Open STT vs Whipscribe
| Feature | Russian Open STT | 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 | No | Yes |
| Streaming | No | No |
| Languages | 1 | 99 |
| Platforms | GitHub | Web, API, MCP |
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