ReaSpeech Lite: Speech-to-text transcription VST3/ARA plugin for REAPER

[ramen]

I'd like to share an open source project I've been working on, ReaSpeech Lite. This is a C++ rewrite of a previous project, ReaSpeech, which integrates speech recognition with the REAPER DAW. The latter version depends on a Docker service; with this C++ rewrite, it is not necessary to run a separate service or install any additional software (other than CUDA Toolkit for GPU acceleration). ReaSpeech Lite embeds whisper.cpp directly into REAPER as a VST plugin, and it uses JUCE 8's WebView component to provide a web-based user interface written in TypeScript.

Project page: https://github.com/TeamAudio/reaspeech-lite
Blog post: https://techaud.io/blog/20250416-reaspeech-lite/

Thanks for whisper.cpp - this project would not have been possible without it! Please let me know if you have any questions.

Dave Benjamin
Tech Audio