Whisper

Whisper

Freemium

OpenAI's open-source speech recognition.

OpenAILaunched 2022-09-21

Pricing details

Open-source free; API $0.006/min

About Whisper

Whisper transcribes speech in 90+ languages with near-human accuracy. Open-source and free to run locally; also available via OpenAI API. Teams pick it because very accurate and open-source weights.

Things to keep in mind: no real-time streaming in open version.

Whisper is a freemium tool from OpenAI and launched on 2022-09-21. It sits in the Audio and Research space and is best used to Transcribe podcasts, Translate audio between languages. Pricing breaks down as: Open-source free; API $0.006/min.

Features

  • Studio-grade voices
    Built-in support for studio-grade voices — used for transcribe podcasts.
  • Real-time TTS API
    Built-in support for real-time tts api — used for transcribe podcasts.
  • Voice cloning from short samples
    Built-in support for voice cloning from short samples — used for transcribe podcasts.
  • Background-noise reduction
    Built-in support for background-noise reduction — used for transcribe podcasts.

Pros

  • Very accurate
  • Open-source weights
  • Supports 90+ languages

Cons

  • No real-time streaming in open version
  • Heavy compute for long audio
  • Speaker diarization needs extras

Categories

Audio
Research

Best use cases

Transcribe podcasts
Translate audio between languages

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