- Use via the OpenAI API — POST to /v1/audio/transcriptions with your audio file and model="whisper-1". Supports MP3, MP4, WAV, WEBM up to 25MB.
- Run locally — Install:
pip install openai-whisper. Run:whisper audio.mp3 --model medium. - Use Faster-Whisper — For faster local inference, install
faster-whisper(runs 4x faster with same accuracy).
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🎵 Voice & Audio
OpenAI Whisper
by OpenAI
OpenAI's open-source speech recognition model. Highly accurate transcription in 99 languages. Runs locally, available via the OpenAI API, and powering many apps.
transcriptionopen-sourcemultilinguallocal
Quick Start
How-To Guides
1Use
whisper audio.mp3 --output_format srt to generate SRT subtitle files with timestamps. Useful for YouTube captions, meeting notes, and podcast transcripts.Tool Info
- Company
- OpenAI
- Category
- 🎵 Voice & Audio
- How-to Guides
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transcriptionopen-sourcemultilinguallocal
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