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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, Hy-MT2 translation, plus diarization capability packs) from model-registry/catalog.json. See Models for the current list.
  • Prebuilt CLI binaries for macOS (arm64) and Linux (x86_64) are published on GitHub Releases; every other platform builds from source.

What’s separate

Section titled “What’s separate”
  • The macOS desktop app is a closed-source product built on top of the open core — see the download page. It is not part of the Apache-2.0 repository.
  • Windows and native Linux desktop packaging aren’t published yet; the CLI and server run on Linux today 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.