Devtoolwatch BoardMoshi review
Moshi is a speech-text foundation model and full-duplex spoken dialogue framework. It uses Mimi, a state-of-the-art streaming neural audio codec.
- 11.4kGitHub stars
- +63new stars, week of Oct 25
- 4.6kdownloads a week, +14% vs 4-week avg
- #13in Voice and realtime this week
Moshi at a glance
- Category
- Voice and realtime
Is Moshi growing? Usage data
In the week of Oct 25–31, 2026, Moshi ranked #270 on the Devtoolwatch Board and #13 in Voice and realtime, with a momentum score of 35 out of 100. Its main package had 4.6k downloads that week, +14% against its own 4-week average.
Show the weekly numbers
| Week of | New stars |
|---|---|
| Aug 9, 2026 | 50 |
| Aug 16, 2026 | 57 |
| Aug 23, 2026 | 55 |
| Aug 30, 2026 | 39 |
| Sep 6, 2026 | 59 |
| Sep 13, 2026 | 44 |
| Sep 20, 2026 | 40 |
| Sep 27, 2026 | 25 |
| Oct 4, 2026 | 30 |
| Oct 11, 2026 | 58 |
| Oct 18, 2026 | 46 |
| Oct 25, 2026 | 63 |
The Board ranks tools by four signals each week: new stars, new stars for the repo's size, added downloads and download growth beyond the market. How the ranking works.
Moshi alternatives
Other voice and realtime AI tools on the Board in the week of Oct 25–31, 2026, by momentum:
| Rank | Tool | Stars | Downloads/wk |
|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | faster-whisperfaster-whisper is a Python reimplementation of OpenAI's Whisper speech-to-text model built on the CTranslate2 inference engine for… | 26.4k | 4.4M |
| #2 | KokoroKokoro is a Python inference library for Kokoro-82M, an open-weight text-to-speech model with 82 million parameters. | 9.8k | 150.7k |
| #3 | ChatterboxChatterbox is a family of open-source text-to-speech and voice cloning models by Resemble AI, with English and multilingual variants. | 27.5k | 73.2k |
| #4 | VoiceMemInfrastructure for the next generation of voice agents, designed to provide universal memory. It is divided into a left brain and a… | 2.8k | – |
| #5 | PipecatPipecat is an open-source Python framework for building real-time voice and multimodal conversational agents, maintained by Daily and… | 17k | 348.5k |
| #6 | WhisperXWhisperX is a Python speech recognition tool built on Whisper that adds word-level timestamps and speaker diarization. | 25k | 158.6k |
Moshi FAQ
How popular is Moshi?
Moshi has 11.4k GitHub stars as of Nov 1, 2026. It gained 63 new stars in the week of Oct 25–31, 2026, against a 12-week average of 47 a week. Its main package had 4.6k downloads that week, +14% against its own 4-week average. That made it #13 among voice and realtime AI tools on the Devtoolwatch Board.
What are the best alternatives to Moshi?
Other voice and realtime AI tools on the Devtoolwatch Board in the week of Oct 25–31, 2026, by momentum: faster-whisper (#1), Kokoro (#2), Chatterbox (#3), VoiceMem (#4), Pipecat (#5). The alternatives table above has their numbers.
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