openai/whisper on Hacker News

…done, nothing leaves my box, and the medium model is overkill. https://openai.com/index/whisper/ https://github.com/openai/whisper

comment by 1970-01-01 · 2026-10-13 · in We turned EmbeddingGemma 2 into a speech-to-text model

…later? If it's not live, that may relax some of the latency requirements. Related links: - https://github.com/openai/whisper (speech-to-text for terminal) - https://buzzcaptions.com/ (graphical interface to Whisper) Somewhat related,…

comment by dv35z · 2026-10-01 · in Show HN: Parrot – Open-Source Smart Meeting Recorder with Co-Pilot on Mac

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https://github.com/openai/whisper

comment by grigio · 2026-01-27 · in Show HN: Whisper – Offline Speech-to-Text for Mac, Windows and Linux

…on your mobile phone. It's still AI, of course. But there is distinction between it and an LLM. [0] https://github.com/openai/whisper/blob/main/model-card.md

comment by Sophira · 2025-11-14 · in I think nobody wants AI in Firefox, Mozilla

…data privacy et all would be an issue of course, but I guess you can just run it locally :) [0] https://github.com/openai/whisper

comment by itsn0tm3 · 2025-10-29 · in YouTube is taking down videos on performing nonstandard Windows 11 installs

…I ask users to provide context upfront and use that as the "initial_prompt" parameter in Whisper: https://github.com/openai/whisper/discussions/963#discussion... Gemini might have similar capabilities for custom vocabulary, though I'm not…

comment by meerab · 2025-10-26 · in Ask HN: How to boost Gemini transcription accuracy for company names?

Very cool. Uses whiper small uder the hood. https://github.com/openai/whisper

comment by hu3 · 2025-09-27 · in Handy – Free open-source speech-to-text app written in Rust

It's even better for some languages other than English (e. g. Spanish), see: https://github.com/openai/whisper?tab=readme-ov-file#availab...

comment by MaKey · 2025-08-13 · in FFmpeg 8.0 adds Whisper support

Whisper tends to fill silence with random garbage from its training set. [0] [1] [2] [0]: https://github.com/openai/whisper/discussions/679 [1]: https://github.com/openai/whisper/discussions/928 [2]: https://github.com/openai/whisper/discus…

comment by Hackbraten · 2025-08-06 · in Show HN: Kitten TTS – 25MB CPU-Only, Open-Source TTS Model

no, but whisper has a 39M model: https://github.com/openai/whisper

comment by gromgull · 2025-08-06 · in Show HN: Kitten TTS – 25MB CPU-Only, Open-Source TTS Model

…to text, fully offline, without training? OpenAI's whisper is a few years old and pretty solid. https://github.com/openai/whisper

comment by colechristensen · 2025-08-06 · in Show HN: Kitten TTS – 25MB CPU-Only, Open-Source TTS Model

…the subtitles by DimaTorzok are coming from some Russian youtube videos on gaming like [2]. [1] https://github.com/openai/whisper/discussions/2372 [2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FAqyUuahMlc&t=401s

comment by codedokode · 2025-07-22 · in Complete silence is always hallucinated as "ترجمة نانسي قنقر" in Arabic

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story by edent · 2025-07-22 · 340 comments

…your pretty head about it, feed it whatever type you want and let Sentry's TypeError sort it out < https://github.com/openai/whisper/blob/v20250625/whisper/aud... > Oh, sorry, and you wanted to know what `pad_or_trim` returns? Well that's…

comment by mdaniel · 2025-07-01 · in Show HN: TokenDagger – A tokenizer faster than OpenAI's Tiktoken

…and the length of the attention can be changed without changing the calculation at all. Here( https://github.com/openai/whisper/blob/main/whisper/model.py... ) is the relevant code in the whisper repo. You'd just need to change the for…

comment by conjecTech · 2025-06-27 · in OpenAI charges by the minute, so speed up your audio

…worked on coqui-ai STT https://github.com/coqui-ai/STT and now recommends using OpenAI Whisper ( https://github.com/openai/whisper )

comment by quentindanjou · 2025-06-25 · in DeepSpeech Is Discontinued (2020)

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story by nghialuong · 2025-06-08 · 1 comment

…graph on OpenAI's github repository, Albanian is the single worst performance you could have had: https://github.com/openai/whisper But for what it's worth, I tried putting the YouTube video of Tom Scott presenting at the Royal Institute…

comment by ben_w · 2025-04-24 · in AI Horseless Carriages

…), a 290mb model, and is able to transcribe audio in all of the languages listed [here]( https://github.com/openai/whisper/blob/248b6cb124225dd263bb9... ). It can be ran entirely offline once the model is loaded in. ![realtime…

comment by codybontecou · 2025-03-30 · in Real-time in-browser speech recognition with Nuxt and Transformers.js

…https://github.com/neonbjb/tortoise-tts/issues LLM/Large Language Model https://lmstudio.ai/ whisper https://github.com/openai/whisper/ in reverse order

comment by genewitch · 2025-03-16 · in Everything you say to your Echo will be sent to Amazon starting on March 28

It's not "Gen"erative, but is still a Transformer, and is kinda OK: https://github.com/openai/whisper (I'm not too impressed with the error rate, but OTOH Alexa and Siri mishear me fairly often as well, so Whisper may be "good enough").

comment by ben_w · 2025-03-15 · in Amazon Is Discontinuing the "Do Not Send Voice Recordings" Feature on Echo

OP might be referring to: https://github.com/openai/whisper

comment by serendipty01 · 2025-02-12 · in Ask HN: Is Whisper Still Relevant?

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story by gwerbret · 2025-02-05 · 0 comments

> * https://github.com/openai/whisper I would be very concerned about any LLM model being used for "transcription", since they may injecting things that nobody said, as in this recent item: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41968191

comment by Terr_ · 2024-10-29 · in Ask HN: Real-time speech-to-speech translation

OpenAI whisper runs on iOS native on device, can't be just costs. https://github.com/openai/whisper/discussions/407

comment by Benjaminsen · 2024-10-25 · in Smartphone buyers meh on AI, care more about battery life

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New OpenAI Whisper model: "turbo"

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Does it have to use Whisper? If so, can't you just run it on that server instead of the Mac? https://github.com/openai/whisper/discussions/1463 If it doesn't, there are a bunch of other speech recognition APIs. Most of them use older techs…

comment by solardev · 2024-09-04 · in Ask HN: How to transcribe a couple thousand calls per day?

The whisper command at https://github.com/openai/whisper can generate .srt and .vtt subtitle files using --output_format.

comment by jjwiseman · 2024-08-23 · in Whisper-WebUI

https://github.com/openai/whisper vs https://github.com/ggerganov/whisper.cpp They are two inference engines for running the whisper ASR model, each with their own API AFAIK.

comment by Zambyte · 2024-08-09 · in OTranscribe: A free and open tool for transcribing audio interviews

I’ve had good results with Whisper. You can use the OpenAI API and it is also open source: https://github.com/openai/whisper

comment by bequanna · 2024-07-03 · in Voice Isolator: Strip background noise for film, podcast, interview production

Multi-language Whisper! https://github.com/openai/whisper

comment by walterbell · 2024-05-21 · in Introducing Copilot+ PCs

On could plug https://github.com/openai/whisper to transcribe recorded audio.

comment by hu3 · 2024-04-21 · in I made an open source Windows app to rewind and search everything on screen

…long videos, generating the transcripts will complete in only a few seconds. Great job @aka_sh! [1] https://github.com/openai/whisper p.s. Is there any chance you'd open source your code? Or do you plan to turn this into a business? The…

comment by metadat · 2024-04-21 · in Show HN: I made a website that converts YT videos into step-by-step guides

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story by mv · 2024-02-26 · 0 comments

…download the videos, convert them to mp3, and then run them through whisper[1] locally. [1] - https://github.com/openai/whisper

comment by sunbum · 2024-02-14 · in How to summarize YouTube videos using artificial intelligence

I found a pretty good discussion in the topic here: https://github.com/openai/whisper/discussions/1243

comment by andrewstuart · 2024-01-25 · in Ask HN: Can AI break a speech audio file into individual words?

There is a plot of language performance on their repo: https://github.com/openai/whisper I am not aware of a multi-lingual leaderboard for speech recognition models.

comment by jpcl · 2024-01-18 · in WhisperSpeech – An open source text-to-speech system built by inverting Whisper

you can do that with whisper https://github.com/openai/whisper even there is fast whisper runs like a charm on my old 2012 imac on cpu https://github.com/FamousDirector/FastWhisper

comment by umtksa · 2024-01-14 · in Ask HN: AI that allows you to make phone calls in a language you don't speak?

…but here's how I'd do it: * Generate a transcript by runing Whisper against the podcast audio file: https://github.com/openai/whisper * Upload transcript to ChatGPT and ask it to summarize. * Automate all the above. EDIT: Apparently I'm…

comment by mmh0000 · 2023-12-27 · in Ask HN: Favorite Podcast Episodes of 2023?

…generates subtitles[0], supporting VTT and SRT so this is just a thin wrapper around that. [0]: https://github.com/openai/whisper/blob/e58f28804528831904c3b...

comment by ipsum2 · 2023-11-24 · in Subtitle is now open-source

…It's extremely precise and easy to get working, I recommend it over pretty much everything else. https://github.com/openai/whisper

comment by smoldesu · 2023-11-21 · in Ask HN: How do you get started with adding voice commands to a computer system?

…identification), which is one of the most highly voted discussion topics on the Whisper project: https://github.com/openai/whisper/discussions/264 Very promising for online meetings to have a transcript of what was discussed.

comment by dijital · 2023-11-20 · in Turn Speech into Text with Audio Hijack 4.3's New Transcribe Block

…itself and get interrupted. Maybe you can use some sort of speaker identification to sort this out? https://github.com/openai/whisper/discussions/264

comment by fintechie · 2023-11-19 · in StyleTTS2 – open-source Eleven-Labs-quality Text To Speech

…with the large model. Not a good time for most people. The Pi 5 could be 2x to 3x faster. [0]: https://github.com/openai/whisper/blob/main/README.md#availa...

comment by coder543 · 2023-11-16 · in Federated finetuning of Whisper on Raspberry Pi 5

…file. There are more than just English models as well, though the performance varies by language. https://github.com/openai/whisper

comment by hiatus · 2023-11-16 · in Saying Goodbye to OpenSubtitles.org API