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Robust Speech Recognition via Large-Scale Weak Supervision

127 mentions on Hacker News by 114 people: 17 stories, 110 comments · first 2022-09-21 · latest 2026-10-13

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  1. …quite interesting and is due to the data that Whisper (the transcription service) was trained on: https://github.com/openai/whisper/discussions/928
  2. …they aren't entirely developed (missing features such as "really real time"/instant transcription https://github.com/openai/whisper/discussions/608 and speaker separation: https://github.com/openai/whisper/discussions/264 ) and I haven't…
  3. …pretty sure OP meant OpenAI’s whisper [0] which is mainly used with whisper.cpp [1] I think. [0]: https://github.com/openai/whisper [1]: https://github.com/ggerganov/whisper.cpp
  4. …to keep it all on-device. I run it locally for various things and it works pretty damn well. [0] https://github.com/openai/whisper
    comment by vsnf · 2023-06-07 · in Notes on Vision Pro
  5. OpenAI Whisper https://github.com/openai/whisper
  6. …good and several of the output formats include time codes, works with multiple languages. https://github.com/openai/whisper
  7. Is there any indication that USM will be open sourced though? This is more so competing with Whisper. https://github.com/openai/whisper
  8. …conference with a German speaker. The transcription was superb, but the translation no so much. [0] https://github.com/openai/whisper
    comment by doublebind · 2023-04-30 · in Whisper.cpp v1.4.0
  9. …followed the various posts linked on this GitHub issue [1]; not sure if there’s more out there. [1] https://github.com/openai/whisper/discussions/2
    comment by aaronharnly · 2023-04-30 · in Whisper.cpp v1.4.0
  10. …commits are features or bug fixes, even if the rest of the message is slow/hard to parse. Versus: https://github.com/openai/whisper/commits/main I sometimes need to parse a couple words before I can figure it out. The emoji on the repo…
    comment by 8organicbits · 2023-03-30 · in Show HN: Gut – An easy-to-use CLI for Git
  11. …The cutting edge is Whisper, and it is leaps and bounds over the state-of-the-art just a year ago: https://github.com/openai/whisper
    comment by retrac · 2023-03-28 · in Ask HN: Was tech always so scammy?
  12. …best you can run on your own hardware. Open-sourced code and publicly free and available models. https://github.com/openai/whisper
    comment by retrac · 2023-03-13 · in How 'Open' Is OpenAI, Really?
  13. https://github.com/openai/whisper/
  14. …brand capitalization. [0]: https://openai.com/blog/introducing-chatgpt-and-whisper-apis... [1]: https://github.com/openai/whisper
  15. Just download whisper .... If you own a gpu use this one https://github.com/openai/whisper If you don't own a gpu use this one https://github.com/ggerganov/whisper.cpp (this one is very very slow)
  16. …a couple of GitHub discussions on the Whisper repository with various fixes/hacks to deal with it: https://github.com/openai/whisper/discussions/679 https://github.com/openai/whisper/discussions/813 If you get a chance, I encourage you to…
    comment by nmfisher · 2023-02-21 · in Whispers of A.I.’s Modular Future
  17. …be optimized to use less memory. For their large Whisper model, OpenAI says they need 10GB of VRAM: https://github.com/openai/whisper#available-models-and-langu... My DirectCompute port of that uses slightly over 4GB of VRAM, see the last…
  18. …will likely improve accuracy for that specific domain. Whisper source is very readable, check out https://github.com/openai/whisper/blob/main/whisper/decoding...
  19. …experience level and complexity of the model and available tooling. For this model specifically ( https://github.com/openai/whisper ) it would be a significant challenge for a newcomer. Luckily Huggingface has a blog post that will get you…
  20. …somehow though. Some more useful discussion here (whisper.cpp project, but still relevant) [1]. 0. https://github.com/openai/whisper/discussions/332 1. https://github.com/ggerganov/whisper.cpp/issues/10
  21. I thought for Whisper ( https://github.com/openai/whisper ) you actually do not need GPU's and can use a CPU?
  22. > being called OpenAI while nothing is open https://github.com/openai/whisper is open
    comment by jefftk · 2023-01-23 · in OpenAI and Microsoft extend partnership
  23. …and looking a lot like future value; as opposed to showing an immediate route to profit. [0] https://github.com/openai/whisper
  24. > what they have is open source How is https://github.com/openai/whisper not open source?
    comment by jefftk · 2023-01-10 · in Microsoft eyes $10B bet on ChatGPT
  25. …some but not all of their released products are released with code under open source licenses. Eg: https://github.com/openai/whisper/blob/main/LICENSE (an actual product, to transcribe audio, which it really does extremely well; and it's…
    comment by jrochkind1 · 2023-01-10 · in Microsoft eyes $10B bet on ChatGPT
  26. Whisper is a Speech to Text model released by OpenAI: https://github.com/openai/whisper
    comment by navanchauhan · 2023-01-03 · in Ask HN: What are you working on this year?
  27. OpenAI’s whisper[1] should do the job for you. [1] - https://github.com/openai/whisper
  28. …by building the discipline necessary to prevent myself from getting distracted in that manner. [1] https://github.com/openai/whisper
  29. Convenient link: https://github.com/openai/whisper
  30. Isn't this it? https://github.com/openai/whisper
  31. …bulk of the work here, is Open Source (under the MIT licence), and freely available for download at https://github.com/openai/whisper . You can run it wherever you want, though something with a GPU will let you do 5x realtime (or better!)…
  32. …too * Google Cloud / Microsoft Azure / AWS / IBM Watson (Can be run Offline) * [OpenAI's Whisper]( https://github.com/openai/whisper ) * [nVidia's NEMO]( https://github.com/NVIDIA/NeMo ) * [PaddleSpeech](…
  33. Other people reporting accuracy issues https://github.com/openai/whisper/discussions/657
  34. …respond with only one of the following words: A, B, or C." It wouldn't be foolproof, but it helps. https://github.com/openai/whisper/discussions/117#discussion...
  35. …correlation between consistency of written/spoken language is for the breakdown per language here: https://github.com/openai/whisper/blob/main/language-breakdo... For instance, I know Turkish is very consistent: it was refactored in 1928…
  36. …but using a VAD as a workaround (like I do in my WebUI) may no longer be strictly necessary: * https://github.com/openai/whisper/discussions/397
  37. Coral and Jetson are not very powerful actually, you can't run even medium model in realtime. https://github.com/openai/whisper/discussions/417 And there is latency issue too, you won't get response very fast. If you look for <0.5s latency…
  38. …a drop in replacement for the for-profit Nuance versions of Dragon, etc. It's even open source. [0] https://github.com/openai/whisper
  39. WER breakdown by languages of Fleurs dataset, using the large model: https://github.com/openai/whisper/blob/main/language-breakdo... from https://github.com/openai/whisper#available-models-and-langu...
  40. It's not as if people aren't trying to do that: https://github.com/openai/whisper/discussions/264 I tried out this notebook about a month ago, and it was rough . After spending an evening improving it, I got everything "working", but…
  41. I would guess that they're using OpenAI's Whisper, which is open source: https://github.com/openai/whisper It does speech-to-text, then you can use the full force of all the text analysis tools that are out there.
  42. You can download whisper at https://github.com/openai/whisper
  43. Someone is experimenting with diarization (speaker identification) + Whisper here https://github.com/openai/whisper/discussions/264
  44. …answers, but should blow siri etc out of the water in terms of understanding the context. [0] https://github.com/openai/whisper [1] https://github.com/mozilla/TTS
  45. …Its accuracy is less good for Hebrew, but instructional materials are likely optimal input. https://github.com/openai/whisper
  46. …define "work", Whisper also works with Hebrew. Not sure if the word error rate is acceptable though https://github.com/openai/whisper/#available-models-and-lang...
  47. …uses it. They also release Whisper model and code[2] [1] https://github.com/openai/CLIP [2] https://github.com/openai/whisper
  48. …more high-quality open source work, both code and models, which will move the field forward. [0]: https://github.com/openai/whisper
    comment by forgingahead · 2022-09-29 · in DALL·E Now Available Without Waitlist
  49. However, https://github.com/openai/whisper#available-models-and-langu... says requires ~1 GB VRAM.
  50. cause ffmpeg inside https://github.com/openai/whisper/blob/main/requirements.txt should process most formats