
Especially when it comes to transcribing Non-English languages, which is something a lot of transcription tech really struggle with. I have to say I'm quite impressed with the little testing I've done so far. If you have an NVIDIA GPU you can run it with CUDA for a massive speed boost by removing the pytorch it installed, and installing a GPU enabled version to get CUDA support.
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Due to the fact that the install instructions installs a CPU only version of pytorch.

It looks even more accurate than Google speech to text premium API damn so goodīe aware that the model runs on the CPU by default on Windows. In January 2021, OpenAI released CLIP, an open source computer vision model that arguably ignited the recent era of rapidly progressing image synthesis technology such as DALL-E 2 and Stable Diffusion. OpenAI has a significant track record on this front. A decoder is trained to predict the corresponding text caption, intermixed with special tokens that direct the single model to perform tasks such as language identification, phrase-level timestamps, multilingual speech transcription, and to-English speech translation.īy 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. Input audio is split into 30-second chunks, converted into a log-Mel spectrogram, and then passed into an encoder. OpenAI presents this overview of Whisper's operation: OpenAI describes Whisper as an encoder-decoder transformer, a type of neural network that can use context gleaned from input data to learn associations that can then be translated into the model's output. According to OpenAI, this open-collection approach has led to "improved robustness to accents, background noise, and technical language." It can also detect the spoken language and translate it to English. OpenAI trained Whisper on 680,000 hours of audio data and matching transcripts in 98 languages collected from the web.

It can transcribe interviews, podcasts, conversations, and more. On Wednesday, OpenAI released a new open source AI model called Whisper that recognizes and translates audio at a level that approaches human recognition ability. Benj Edwards / Ars Technica reader comments 68 with
