iOS Speech Frameworks Voice AI Tools

Native iOS/macOS/tvOS applications and SDKs wrapping Apple's Speech.framework and AVFoundation for text-to-speech, speech recognition, or voice synthesis. Does NOT include cloud-only services, Python/web implementations, or general voice AI applications without iOS-native code.

There are 99 ios speech frameworks tools tracked. 2 score above 70 (verified tier). The highest-rated is k2-fsa/sherpa-ncnn at 71/100 with 1,648 stars and 9,383 monthly downloads. 1 of the top 10 are actively maintained.

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#	Tool	Score	Tier	Stars	Language
1	k2-fsa/sherpa-ncnn Real-time speech recognition and voice activity detection (VAD) using...	71	Verified	1,648	C++
2	FluidInference/FluidAudio Frontier CoreML audio models in your apps — text-to-speech, speech-to-text,...	71	Verified	1,689	Swift
3	phuc-nt/my-translator Real-time speech translation — macOS & Windows, free TTS, no server, your...	57	Established	308	JavaScript
4	Blaizzy/mlx-audio-swift A modular Swift SDK for audio processing with MLX on Apple Silicon	54	Established	446	Swift
5	pot-app/pot-desktop 🌈一个跨平台的划词翻译和OCR软件 \| A cross-platform software for text translation and recognition.	53	Established	17,383	JavaScript
6	soniqo/speech-swift AI speech toolkit for Apple Silicon — ASR, TTS, speech-to-speech, VAD, and...	52	Established	417	Swift
7	Picovoice/cobra On-device voice activity detection (VAD) powered by deep learning	48	Emerging	248	Python
8	keenresearch/keenasr-ios-poc Proof of concept app that demonstrates use of KeenASR SDK in ObjC. WE ARE...	48	Emerging	70	Objective-C
9	fulldecent/vowel-practice iOS application for finding formants in spoken sounds	48	Emerging	66	Swift
10	AppDevGuy/OSSSpeechKit OSSSpeechKit offers a native iOS Speech wrapper for AVFoundation and Apple's Speech.	47	Emerging	181	Swift
11	alexruperez/SpeechRecognizerButton UIButton subclass with push to talk recording, speech recognition and...	47	Emerging	184	Swift
12	Cay-Zhang/SwiftSpeech A speech recognition framework designed for SwiftUI.	45	Emerging	527	Swift
13	algolia/voice-overlay-ios 🗣 An overlay that gets your user’s voice permission and input as text in a...	43	Emerging	556	Swift
14	jtkim-kaist/VAD Voice activity detection (VAD) toolkit including DNN, bDNN, LSTM and ACAM...	43	Emerging	869	MATLAB
15	mapbox/mapbox-speech-swift Natural-sounding text-to-speech in Swift or Objective-C on iOS, macOS, tvOS,...	42	Emerging	46	Swift
16	mobilequickie/AmazonSpeechTranslator End-to-end Solution for Speech Recognition, Text Translation, and...	42	Emerging	51	Swift
17	rudrankriyam/Glosik Sample project for F5-TTS using MLX Swift	41	Emerging	50	Swift
18	spokestack/spokestack-ios Spokestack: give your iOS app a voice interface!	41	Emerging	45	Swift
19	IhorShevchuk/RHVoice-spm A free and open source speech synthesizer with support for a lot languages...	39	Emerging	4	Swift
20	jaywcjlove/TextSoundSaver Using the TextSoundSaver application, you can convert text into realistic...	37	Emerging	85	Swift
21	mu-hashmi/personaplex-mlx PersonaPlex on Apple Silicon: an MLX port of NVIDIA’s full-duplex...	36	Emerging	35	Python
22	renaudjenny/TellTime iOS application to tell the time in the British way 🇬🇧⏰	35	Emerging	67	Swift
23	iotjin/JhPrivacyAuthTool 隐私权限判断 - 封装了几种常用的隐私权限判断(定位服务,通讯录, 日历,提醒事项, 照片, 蓝牙共享,麦克风, 相机)和通知的注册和判断。定位服务,蓝牙共享是单独调用的	34	Emerging	44	Objective-C
24	ontypehq/mlx-swift-asr On-device speech recognition for Apple Silicon, powered by MLX.	34	Emerging	4	Swift
25	RoyNkem/SwiftUI-AI-Voice-Assistant A multi-platform app for voice-based interactions built using SwiftUI with...	34	Emerging	32	Swift
26	ethicalabs-ai/Kurtis-E1-MLX-Voice-Agent A lightweight voice companion, optimized for macOS.	33	Emerging	9	Python
27	renaudjenny/swift-tts A straightforward package containing version for Swift modern concurrency,...	33	Emerging	52	Swift
28	rryam/SakuraKit Swift SDK for Prototyping AI Speech Generation	33	Emerging	26	Swift
29	speechly/ios-client The iOS client library for Speechly API	33	Emerging	65	Swift
30	just-ai/aimybox-ios-sdk Voice assistant SDK for iOS devices written in Swift	32	Emerging	21	Swift
31	hanxiao/mls MLX Local Serving (MLS) - Unified ASR, TTS, and Translation on Apple Silicon	31	Emerging	10	HTML
32	Otosaku/OtosakuTTS-iOS Swift library for offline text-to-speech synthesis on iOS/macOS. Generate...	30	Emerging	51	Swift
33	AceCentre/TextAloud iOS app. Built in Swift. Reads out text - sentence by sentence, paragraph by...	29	Experimental	11	C++
34	ryanlintott/OEVoice Old English text-to-speech using AVSpeechSynthesis and IPA pronunciations.	28	Experimental	26	Swift
35	fikrikarim/volocal Fully local voice AI for iOS	28	Experimental	15	Swift
36	keenresearch/keenasr-swift-poc Proof-of-concept app that showcases use of KeenASR SDK in a Swift app. WE...	27	Experimental	4	Objective-C
37	vhanagwal/speech-recognition A speech-to-text app using AVAudioEngine.	27	Experimental	6	Swift
38	jayesh15111988/SpeechRecognitionLibrary A pluggable library for speech recognition on iOS - Requires iOS 10.0+	26	Experimental	3	Swift
39	Ahmed5attab/Qaf-QuranSearchAndMemorization iOS Islamic application for the holy Quran, helps the Muslims to have the...	26	Experimental	2	Swift
40	n0an/VivaDicta Voice Transcription, Reimagined	26	Experimental	7	Swift
41	jakob-stoeck/speechToText iOS speech recognition app for voice messages and general audio files	26	Experimental	11	Swift
42	kemsta/macloop https://pypi.org/project/macloop/	25	Experimental	3	Rust
43	Snesnopic/Morser SwiftUI recreation of my UIKit Morse Code experiment	25	Experimental	3	Swift
44	answersolutionsapps/runandread-ios Ultimate Text-to-Speech and Audiobook Player for iOS, macOS	24	Experimental	2	Swift
45	speechly/api Speechly public API definitions and generated code	24	Experimental	17	Swift
46	baochuquan/ios-vad iOS Voice Activity Detection (VAD). Supports WebRTC VAD GMM, Silero VAD DNN,...	24	Experimental	33	Swift
47	Otosaku/OtosakuStreamingASR-iOS OtosakuStreamingASR-iOS is a real-time speech recognition engine for iOS,...	23	Experimental	11	Swift
48	RK2521/swift-toml 📄 Parse TOML configuration files easily with this robust Swift...	23	Experimental	1	Swift
49	hackzilla/SpeechRecognition A simple yet powerful SwiftUI app for iOS that demonstrates speech...	23	Experimental	2	Swift
50	aminshamim/textream-ios Textream iOS — Teleprompter app for iPhone/iPad with Director Mode, smooth...	22	Experimental	—	Swift
51	chenprof/scala-mlx Run large language models on Apple Silicon GPUs using Scala Native with...	22	Experimental	—	Scala
52	ynop/NTSpeechRecognition NTSpeechRecognition is a iOS/macOS framework, written in Objective-c,...	22	Experimental	7	C
53	guozhonghao1994/Voice_Activity_Detection_V1 2018 Lenovo AI Lab Summer Intern	22	Experimental	7	C
54	mrkhachaturov/OpenAITTSKit Minimal streaming TTS client for OpenAI audio/speech API. Swift 6.2, zero...	22	Experimental	—	Swift
55	gabrimatic/kokoro-mlx Kokoro-82M text-to-speech inference on Apple Silicon via MLX	22	Experimental	—	Python
56	Pushparaj13811/transcrib iOS app that converts speech to text and text to speech using UIKit....	22	Experimental	12	Swift
57	RJoshi141/utter Voice capture app for Apple Watch and iPhone. Speak a thought on your wrist,...	22	Experimental	—	Swift
58	nsoojin/VoiceControlSample-iOS Creating a stateful UI with GameplayKit - Voice Control	22	Experimental	7	Swift
59	hansemannn/SpeechRecognitionExample An example on how to use the new iOS10 API "SFSpeechRecognizer" in Swift	21	Experimental	7	Swift
60	httpjamesm/tauri-plugin-tts Text to speech plugin for Tauri mobile apps	21	Experimental	9	Swift
61	madcato/bl-speech-recognizer Some implemented use cases for SFSpeechRecognizer	20	Experimental	1	Swift
62	ttsaigit/tts-ios TTS.ai iOS app — 18 AI text-to-speech models, voice cloning, speech-to-text	19	Experimental	—	—
63	alfianlosari/iOSSpeechNaturalLanguage macOS Catalyst Video Speech Recognizer & Natural Language Recognition App demo	19	Experimental	18	Swift
64	okamyuji/HomeCareVoiceLog Offline iOS voice-first care journal with automatic on-device transcription...	19	Experimental	—	Swift
65	msolo/Mavis-AAC-iOS A simple iOS app for interacting with Apple's speech synthesizer.	19	Experimental	6	Swift
66	yao23/iOS_Playground play iOS projects for fun	18	Experimental	1	C++
67	rachit-shah/AetherVoiceSwift Multi-platform iOS/macOS app to read provided documents using user-provided...	18	Experimental	5	Swift
68	LinkonBSMRSTU/Speech-To-Text-App-iOS A simple iOS App that can convert speech/voice into text. Only English voice...	18	Experimental	23	Swift
69	russell-archer/SpeechDictationDemo An iOS speech recognition demo that transcribes live speech	18	Experimental	8	Swift
70	avikantz/Samaritan Samaritan demo clone for iOS.	18	Experimental	4	Objective-C
71	ekdysis/Speech-POC POC using Apple's Speech framework demonstrating real-time speech...	17	Experimental	4	Swift
72	Kenjd/student-name-pronunciation-helper A Shiny app to help teachers learn correct pronunciation of student names	17	Experimental	2	R
73	language-org/voice-activ-detect-deepnet ASR: Light deep net for real-time voice activity detection	16	Experimental	4	Jupyter Notebook
74	cagataygedik/TTS Internship Text-to-Speech research project.	16	Experimental	4	Swift
75	prashuk/iOS-Third-Eye An iOS app for detecting objects in Swift	15	Experimental	2	Swift
76	ivedants/Magic-Media-native-iOS-iPadOS-AR-App Magic Media is an award-winning experimental native iOS/iPadOS application...	15	Experimental	20	Swift
77	ponysoloud/natural-language-flight-searching This framework realize new features for iOS 12 - Natural Language Framework...	15	Experimental	2	Swift
78	bhalla98/SiriDemo Speech Recognition to Text using SpeechKit	14	Experimental	1	Swift
79	trannhan25/NeMoConformerASR-iOS 🎙️ Enable accurate speech recognition on iOS/macOS using NVIDIA NeMo...	14	Experimental	—	Swift
80	Otosaku/NeMoConformerASR-iOS On-device speech-to-text for iOS/macOS powered by NVIDIA NeMo Conformer CTC...	13	Experimental	2	Swift
81	Otosaku/NeMoVAD-iOS Swift library for Voice Activity Detection (VAD) using NVIDIA NeMo MarbleNet...	13	Experimental	2	Swift
82	okamyuji/SalesVoiceNotes Voice notes app for sales with speaker diarization and transcription....	13	Experimental	2	Swift
83	jack45j/BSSpeechRecognizer Integrate Speech framework and WaveformView(by jyunderwood)	13	Experimental	6	Swift
84	ynop/NTSpeechTools Objective-C Library that provides tools for working with speech recognition....	12	Experimental	4	Objective-C
85	Otosaku/NeMoConformerASR-Android Kotlin library for on-device speech recognition using NVIDIA NeMo Conformer...	12	Experimental	1	Kotlin
86	wilson534/soundbridge-opus-code-20260227 SoundBridge: Apple ecosystem app for hearing-impaired seniors and family...	12	Experimental	1	Swift
87	dingwilson/SousChef 👨🏻‍🍳 HackUTD Hackathon Project - iOS Swift personal assistant for finding...	12	Experimental	3	Swift
88	mshivam019/Meow-Speech IOS app - Text to Speech	12	Experimental	3	Swift
89	speechly/ios-repo-filtering An example application build with Speechly iOS client	12	Experimental	3	Swift
90	Ahmed5attab/Grades-Assistants- Assistant iOS application helps the teacher review his students data and...	12	Experimental	4	Swift
91	albert-grigoryan/ArmTTS-iOS Text-to-Speech (TTS) engine for the Armenian language	11	Experimental	2	Swift
92	Compiler-Inc/Transcriber A modern, Swift-native wrapper around Apple's Speech framework and...	11	Experimental	23	Swift
93	AyushPramanik/Lucent Lucent is an accessibility-focused iPad application built with SwiftUI to...	11	Experimental	—	Swift
94	tattn/SpeechRecognizer Speech recognizer for macOS	11	Experimental	2	Swift
95	anish0123/playNLearn Play N Learn is an iOS App created using Xcode with programming language...	11	Experimental	2	Swift
96	ClaudiaRaffaelli/Blue-Blueberries Blue Blueberries is an Ionic cookbook application equipped with an in-app...	11	Experimental	—	Objective-C
97	kamaal111/movie-talker-ios-swift A speech recognition and text to speech mobile app that tells you the...	10	Experimental	1	Swift
98	thiagovinhote/SpeechExample Exemplo de como implementar o Speech Recognition em iOS	10	Experimental	1	Swift
99	behrad-kzm/BEKSpeechToText A Swift library to convert speech to text using Google API.	10	Experimental	1	Swift

Comparisons in this category

FluidAudio and speech-swift (71 vs 52) speech-swift and mlx-audio-swift (52 vs 54) mlx-audio-swift and mlx-swift-asr (54 vs 34) speech-swift and mlx-swift-asr (52 vs 34)