Skip to content
OpenASR

Project status

OpenASR’s Rust core, CLI, local HTTP API, and model catalog shipped as a public Apache-2.0 open core at github.com/QuintinShaw/openasr (see Releases for the current version). See the Overview for the core posture (default backend, no silent downloads, no telemetry, signed catalog pulls).

What’s shipped

Section titled “What’s shipped”
  • A real, signed model catalog. openasr pull <model>[:<quant>] installs verified packs (Whisper family, Qwen3-ASR, Moonshine, Cohere Transcribe, X-ASR, Dolphin, Parakeet-TDT, FireRed-AED, SenseVoice, Hy-MT2 translation, plus diarization and punctuation-restoration capability packs such as FireRed punctuation) from model-registry/catalog.json. See Models for the current list.
  • Prebuilt CLI binaries for macOS (arm64, x86_64), Linux (x86_64, arm64, plus CUDA/ROCm/Vulkan/musl variants), and Windows (x86_64, arm64, plus CUDA/ROCm/Vulkan variants) are published on GitHub Releases; other platforms build from source.

What’s separate

Section titled “What’s separate”
  • The macOS and Windows desktop apps are closed-source products built on top of the open core — see the download page. They are not part of the Apache-2.0 repository.
  • A native Linux desktop app is not yet published; the CLI and server already run on Linux via source build or the release tarball.

Boundaries worth knowing

Section titled “Boundaries worth knowing”
  • .oasr (GGUF-backed) is the only user-facing pack format; bare .gguf is not accepted as run input.
  • mock is an opt-in, hidden, deterministic backend used for CI and plumbing tests only — it is not a public transcription mode and isn’t exposed in --help.