Decision Workspace
whisper-macos-cli vs rs-voice-toolkit-stt vs whisper-guard
Side-by-side comparison of Rust crates
45
whisper-macos-cli
experimentalv0.1.2
Transcribe audio files locally on Apple Silicon via whisper.cpp with Metal GPU acceleration, exposing a strict stdin/stdout JSON contract for AI agents and Unix pipelines.
60
rs-voice-toolkit-stt
experimentalv0.16.1
A Rust library for speech-to-text processing using Whisper
57
whisper-guard
experimentalv0.3.0
The post-processing layer Whisper should have shipped with - segment dedup, foreign-script rejection, noise-marker collapse, voice-command strip
Core Metrics
| whisper-macos-cli | rs-voice-toolkit-stt | whisper-guard | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Health Score | 45 | 60 | 57 |
| Total Downloads | 61 | 4.3K | 1.1K |
| 30d Downloads | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Dependents | 0 | 12 | 14 |
| Releases | 3 | 12 | 6 |
| Last Updated | 41d ago | 21d ago | 60d ago |
| Age | 1m | 10m | 3m |
Health Breakdown
whisper-macos-cli
Maintenance
11
Quality
11
Community
6
Popularity
2
Documentation
15
rs-voice-toolkit-stt
Maintenance
18
Quality
14
Community
9
Popularity
4
Documentation
15
whisper-guard
Maintenance
16
Quality
16
Community
9
Popularity
4
Documentation
12
Technical Details
| whisper-macos-cli | rs-voice-toolkit-stt | whisper-guard | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Version | 0.1.2 | 0.16.1 | 0.3.0 |
| Stable (≥1.0) | ✗ No | ✗ No | ✗ No |
| License | MIT OR Apache-2.0 | MIT OR Apache-2.0 | MIT |
| Dependencies | 41 | 16 | 3 |
| Crate Size | 149KB | 47KB | 41KB |
| Features | 3 | 5 | 3 |
| Yanked % | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% |
| Edition | 2024 | 2024 | 2021 |
| MSRV | 1.88 | 1.85 | 1.75 |
| Owners | 1 | 1 | 1 |
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Quick Verdict
- •rs-voice-toolkit-stt leads with a health score of 60/100, but none of the options score above 80.