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Whisper is an open-source speech recognition system by OpenAI that transcribes, translates, and identifies spoken language in real time using deep learning models.
Whisper is a general-purpose speech recognition model developed by OpenAI. Built on a transformer-based sequence-to-sequence architecture, it’s trained on vast and diverse audio datasets, enabling high performance across tasks like speech-to-text, translation, and spoken language detection.
Released under the MIT license, Whisper is completely open source and freely available for developers, researchers, and organizations. It has become one of the most popular speech recognition tools on GitHub, with a large and active contributor base.
Whisper supports a wide range of languages for transcription, including English, Japanese, Spanish, French, and more. It can accurately transcribe spoken content, making it suitable for multilingual applications and global accessibility projects.
In addition to transcription, Whisper can automatically detect the language of an audio file before processing. This feature is valuable for applications that need to handle mixed-language audio or support international users.
By adding a simple command-line flag, Whisper can translate non-English speech directly into English. This makes it useful for generating subtitles, voice-over translations, or content localization.
Whisper performs multiple speech-processing tasks in parallel using special tokens, eliminating the need for separate models. It’s ideal for voice-based applications like virtual assistants, media transcription, accessibility tools, and language learning apps.
Whisper offers six model sizes—from Tiny to Large—with trade-offs in speed, memory usage, and accuracy. Users can choose between English-only and multilingual models, depending on their use case and hardware limitations.
The Turbo model, a variant of large-v3, offers significantly faster processing with minimal accuracy loss. It's optimized for production environments where speed is a priority.
Whisper is available via PyPI and GitHub. It can be used directly from the command line for quick transcriptions or integrated into Python applications for more custom workflows. The API includes functions for language detection, audio decoding, and full transcription workflows.
With support for Windows, macOS, and Linux, and dependencies such as PyTorch, ffmpeg, and OpenAI’s tokenizer library, Whisper is ready to deploy across a variety of systems and environments.