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> Source: <https://agentsearchengine.app/agents/funasr>
> Published: 2026-08-03 05:51:15+00:00

# FunASR

Industrial-grade speech recognition toolkit: 170x realtime, 50+ languages, speaker diarization, emotion detection, streaming, and OpenAI-compatible API.

Self-hosted speech recognition with VAD, punctuation, and speaker pipelines.

You need one blanket licence — the toolkit is MIT but model licences vary.

## About FunASR

Industrial speech recognition. Up to 340x realtime, 26x faster than Whisper. 50+ languages. Speaker diarization · Emotion detection · Streaming · One API call

Quick Start · Colab · Benchmark · Model selection · Migration guide · Use cases · Deployment matrix · Models · Agent Integration · Docs · Contribute

No local setup? Open the Colab quickstart to transcribe a public sample or upload your own audio in a browser.

FunASR is an open-source project written primarily in Python, with 20k stars on GitHub. It was last updated in August 2026.

```
pip install torch torchaudio
```

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