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OpenAI offers Whisper, an AI model that automatically transcribes spoken audio into text, available via the OpenAI API and used within ChatGPT's voice features.

Details

Whisper is an open-source automatic speech recognition (ASR) model trained on 680,000 hours of multilingual audio. It is available as an open-source model on GitHub and via the OpenAI Speech-to-Text API. Whisper also powers the voice transcription feature inside ChatGPT. The model supports transcription and translation across multiple languages.

Products affected

OpenAI API (Speech-to-Text)ChatGPT (voice transcription)Open-source (GitHub)

Sources & Evidence

News Article

News Article
https://github.com/openai/whisper
https://github.com/openai/whisper
News Article
https://huggingface.co/openai/whisper-large-v3
https://huggingface.co/openai/whisper-large-v3
News Article
https://openai.com/index/introducing-chatgpt-and-whisper-apis/
https://openai.com/index/introducing-chatgpt-and-whisper-apis/
News Article
https://github.com/openai/whisper/discussions/1762
https://github.com/openai/whisper/discussions/1762

Community Report

Community Report
Whisper (speech recognition system)
Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whisper_(speech_recognition_system)

Company Disclosure

Company DisclosureVerified
Speech to text
OpenAI
https://developers.openai.com/api/docs/guides/speech-to-text
Company DisclosureVerified
Introducing Whisper
OpenAI·Sep 2022
https://openai.com/index/whisper/

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