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…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

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

…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)

…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?

> * 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

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

…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

Do you know if these implementations also support leveraging the M1/M2 GPU, such as shown here? https://github.com/openai/whisper/pull/382

comment by euazOn · 2023-11-07 · in OpenAI releases Whisper v3, new generation open source ASR model

Good improvements for many languages, numbers here https://github.com/openai/whisper/blob/main/language-breakdo...

comment by nshm · 2023-11-06 · in OpenAI releases Whisper v3, new generation open source ASR model

Whisper V3 is released! https://github.com/openai/whisper/commit/c5d42560760a05584c1... Looks like it's just a new checkpoint for the large model. It would be nice to have updates for the smaller models too. But it'll be easy to integrate…

comment by modeless · 2023-11-06 · in New models and developer products

The Whisper V3 model was released open source a few minutes ago: https://github.com/openai/whisper/commit/c5d42560760a05584c1...

comment by GaggiX · 2023-11-06 · in OpenAI DevDay, Opening Keynote Livestream [video]

Oh nice a new open source Whisper version: https://github.com/openai/whisper/commit/c5d42560760a05584c1...

comment by GaggiX · 2023-11-06 · in OpenAI DevDay, Opening Keynote Livestream [video]

…voices, languages, etc. It even supports Meta MMS which has support for 1,100 languages[1]. [0] - https://github.com/openai/whisper#available-models-and-langu... [1] - https://about.fb.com/news/2023/05/ai-massively-multilingual-...

comment by kkielhofner · 2023-11-02 · in Home Assistant 2023.11

…Also I saw this thing called WhisperScript that looks pretty slick: https://github.com/openai/whisper/discussions/1028 That being said, WhisperX isn't that hard to setup. My step by step from a couple months ago: https://llm-t

comment by lhl · 2023-11-02 · in Talk-Llama

…it's free and open, you can run it locally. it makes very few errors (for my own voice, anyway) https://github.com/openai/whisper

comment by qup · 2023-10-23 · in Ask HN: Speech to text models, are they usable yet?

Is this just a front end to OpanAI's whisper? https://github.com/openai/whisper

comment by not_the_fda · 2023-08-24 · in MacWhisper: Transcribe audio files on your Mac

The OpenAi CLI does that, follow the instructions https://github.com/openai/whisper

comment by dagaci · 2023-08-23 · in MacWhisper: Transcribe audio files on your Mac