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OpenAI Whisper

Open-source speech recognition model that transcribes audio in 99 languages with high accuracy.

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Whisper is OpenAI’s open-source automatic speech recognition (ASR) model, widely considered one of the most accurate transcription models available. It handles 99 languages, multiple accents, and noisy audio remarkably well. Available via the OpenAI API, as a local model, and as the transcription engine behind countless other apps.

Key Features

  • 99-language transcription
  • Robust performance on noisy audio and accents
  • Speaker diarization (with third-party extensions)
  • Translation to English from any language
  • Timestamps at word and segment level
  • Runs locally or via API

Pricing

  • Open-source: Free to download and run locally
  • OpenAI API: $0.006/minute via Whisper API

Best For

Developers building transcription applications, researchers processing audio data, and users who want a highly accurate, free speech-to-text model they can run locally.

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