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FunASR

FunASR is an MCP server that gives AI assistants local audio transcription with SenseVoiceSmall by default. The Dockerfile starts the MCP server over stdio and is suitable for MCP directory checks that initialize the server and call tools/list. It has 20,596 GitHub stars, is released under the MIT license and runs locally with docker run -i --rm ghcr.io/modelscope/funasr-mcp:0.1.2.

github.com/modelscope/FunASR (opens in a new tab)

Install FunASR

Generated from the server's MCP registry entry. Replace your-value with your own values.

Claude Desktop

claude_desktop_config.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "funasr": {
      "command": "docker",
      "args": [
        "run",
        "-i",
        "--rm",
        "ghcr.io/modelscope/funasr-mcp:0.1.2"
      ]
    }
  }
}

Settings > Developer > Edit Config. macOS: ~/Library/Application Support/Claude/, Windows: %APPDATA%\Claude\. Restart Claude Desktop afterwards.

Claude Code

claude mcp add --transport stdio funasr -- docker run -i --rm ghcr.io/modelscope/funasr-mcp:0.1.2

Cursor

.cursor/mcp.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "funasr": {
      "type": "stdio",
      "command": "docker",
      "args": [
        "run",
        "-i",
        "--rm",
        "ghcr.io/modelscope/funasr-mcp:0.1.2"
      ]
    }
  }
}

Project file; use ~/.cursor/mcp.json to enable it in every project.

VS Code

.vscode/mcp.json
{
  "servers": {
    "funasr": {
      "type": "stdio",
      "command": "docker",
      "args": [
        "run",
        "-i",
        "--rm",
        "ghcr.io/modelscope/funasr-mcp:0.1.2"
      ]
    }
  }
}

Config formats checked against the official docs on Oct 7, 2026: modelcontextprotocol.io (opens in a new tab), code.claude.com (opens in a new tab), cursor.com (opens in a new tab), code.visualstudio.com (opens in a new tab).

Tools (3)

Parsed from the Tools section of the README; check the repository for the current list.

  • transcribe_audio

    Transcribe a speech audio file to text.

  • audio_path

    string

  • language

    string

About FunASR

Model Context Protocol server that gives AI assistants local audio transcription with SenseVoiceSmall by default. The Dockerfile starts the MCP server over stdio and is suitable for MCP directory checks that initialize the server and call tools/list.

  • pytorch
  • speech-recognition
  • paraformer
  • punctuation
  • speaker-diarization
  • voice-activity-detection
  • asr
  • multilingual-asr
  • speech-to-text
  • transcription

FAQ

FunASR FAQ

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What is FunASR?

FunASR is an MCP server that gives AI assistants local audio transcription with SenseVoiceSmall by default. The Dockerfile starts the MCP server over stdio and is suitable for MCP directory checks that initialize the server and call tools/list. It has 20,596 GitHub stars, is released under the MIT license and runs locally with docker run -i --rm ghcr.io/modelscope/funasr-mcp:0.1.2. The source code is at github.com/modelscope/FunASR.

How do I install the FunASR MCP server?

Add the command docker run -i --rm ghcr.io/modelscope/funasr-mcp:0.1.2 to your MCP client: put it in claude_desktop_config.json for Claude Desktop, run claude mcp add for Claude Code, or add it to .cursor/mcp.json (Cursor) or .vscode/mcp.json (VS Code). The snippets on this page are ready to paste.

Is FunASR free?

The server is open source under the MIT license, so running it is free. It does not declare any required API key.

Is FunASR actively maintained?

The most recent commit was on Oct 2, 2026. The latest release is v1.4.16, published Sep 18, 2026. appsgit only lists MCP servers with a commit in the last six months and re-checks every server daily.