OpenAI Whisper
Open-source multilingual speech recognition model from OpenAI.
What is OpenAI Whisper?
OpenAI Whisper is an open-source automatic speech recognition model that transcribes audio to text in over 90 languages, with built-in translation support. Trained on a large, diverse audio dataset, it maintains accuracy across accents, background noise, and technical vocabulary, and can be freely integrated into developer applications.
Key features
- Open-source, free to self-host
- Multilingual transcription across 90+ languages
- Built-in translation support
- Fine-tunable for custom use cases
Pricing
FreeFree and open source; self-hosted or run via third-party API providers at their own usage rates.
Verify on the official pricing page →OpenAI Whisper use cases
- 1Podcast and video transcription
- 2Subtitle generation
- 3Voice assistant development
- 4Meeting note transcription
Who is OpenAI Whisper for?
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