WhisperX
Fewer than 5 people recommend it so far, so there's no written verdict. Here is what commenters said.
4recommend
1warn against
Nov 18, 2025first mention
Jul 7, 2026latest mention
Why people recommend it
“I recommend WhisperX [2], it's the most complete CLI so far”
“all of the state-of-the-art speech-to-text systems are large-language model based and are significantly faster and better than what we had before.”
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“Whisper-X does speaker-annotated transcripts nicely”
“If you need diarization, you can use something like”
Caveats and dissent
“my minimum quality bar for the lyrics and sync accuracy in karaoke is much higher than what's achievable with WhisperX / Force Alignment”
Often compared with
Threads where it came up
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- Nightingale – open-source karaoke app that works with any song on your computer 1 mention
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- Dell's CES 2026 chat was the most pleasingly un-AI briefing I've had in 5 years 1 mention
Also written as whisperX. Data: whisperx.json. Quotes are verbatim; the verdict and theme labels are written by a model from these comments, and every clause links to its sources.
All comments 11
“I used to keep a version of whisperx around”
I would try Qwen-ASR: https://qwen.ai/blog?id=qwen3asr See the very bottom of the page for a transcription with timestamps.
“my minimum quality bar for the lyrics and sync accuracy in karaoke is much higher than what's achievable with WhisperX / Force Alignment”
“I've been using a Whisper model, specifically WhisperX, to do all my work”
“I recommend WhisperX [2], it's the most complete CLI so far”
“whisperX [0] is a library that combines generic whisper speech recognition models with some additional tools”
“all of the state-of-the-art speech-to-text systems are large-language model based and are significantly faster and better than what we had before.”
Check out Parakeet as well , faster and more accurate in my experience
“Whisper-X does speaker-annotated transcripts nicely”
“If you need diarization, you can use something like”
“WhisperX with pyannote, but it is not perfect”