Alibaba SenseVoice
What ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini & Grok actually say · July 2026
The verdict
Alibaba SenseVoice appears in 1 AI-ranked category.
Exceptionally fast non-autoregressive model (up to 15x faster than Whisper-large) that natively provides language identification, speech emotion recognition, and audio event detection.
Where Alibaba SenseVoice falls short, per the models
- Gemini Highly localized language support, performing well only for Mandarin, Cantonese, English, Japanese, and Korean.
Top alternatives per the models: OpenAI Whisper · NVIDIA Parakeet TDT · NVIDIA Canary-Qwen 2.5B · IBM Granite Speech
Embed your ranking badge
Alibaba SenseVoice ranks #8 for best open-source speech-to-text model by AI-model consensus. Put the badge in your README, docs or site — it updates automatically as the models re-rank.
[](https://modelsagree.com/best/best-open-source-speech-to-text-model?utm_source=badge&utm_medium=embed&utm_campaign=badge-alibaba-sensevoice)<a href="https://modelsagree.com/best/best-open-source-speech-to-text-model?utm_source=badge&utm_medium=embed&utm_campaign=badge-alibaba-sensevoice"><img src="https://modelsagree.com/badge/alibaba-sensevoice.svg" alt="Alibaba SenseVoice — ranked #8 for Best open-source speech-to-text model by AI models on ModelsAgree" height="28"></a>Rankings are computed from what the models answer, re-polled weekly · raw reasoning shown verbatim · methodology