I'm working on a new project with @film_girl to create a free, secure, and easy-to-use transcription app for journalists, powered by @openai 's whisper ML model. If you're interested in ...

By open-sourcing Whisper, OpenAI hopes to introduce a new foundation model that others can build on in the future to improve speech processing and accessibility tools. OpenAI has a significant ...

In the past month, Whisper was downloaded over 4.2 million times from the open-source AI platform HuggingFace, with the tool being the most popular speech recognition model on the website.

Whisper’s large-v2 model in the API provides much faster and cost-effective results, OpenAI said. Whisper accepts files in multiple formats including M4A, MP3, MP4, MPEG, MPGA, WAV and WEBM.

Making a Whisper model run locally on a PC It takes quite a lot of effort Since the core Whisper model is open-source, I explored how to make it work on my base M1 MacBook Air with 8GB of RAM.