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Whisper (OpenAI)
Also known as: Whisper (OpenAI) / OpenAI Whisper / Whisper Large
OpenAI's open-weights automatic speech recognition model. Supports multiple languages and tasks, delivering high-accuracy transcription and translation even when run locally.
Overview
Whisper supports 99+ languages and the large-v3 model records best-in-class WER. It underpins GPT-Realtime-2 and is being extended for streaming inference.
Use cases
Used broadly for meeting-minute generation, subtitle creation, and call-centre audio transcription. Also runnable locally via Ollama for privacy-sensitive scenarios.
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