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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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    Whisper v3
    story by samber · 2023-11-07 · 1 comment
  2. Do you know if these implementations also support leveraging the M1/M2 GPU, such as shown here? https://github.com/openai/whisper/pull/382
  3. Good improvements for many languages, numbers here https://github.com/openai/whisper/blob/main/language-breakdo...
  4. 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
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    OpenAI releases Whisper v3, new generation open source ASR model
    story by crakenzak · 2023-11-06 · 58 comments
  6. The Whisper V3 model was released open source a few minutes ago: https://github.com/openai/whisper/commit/c5d42560760a05584c1...
  7. Oh nice a new open source Whisper version: https://github.com/openai/whisper/commit/c5d42560760a05584c1...
  8. …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
  9. …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
  10. …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
  11. 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
  12. The OpenAi CLI does that, follow the instructions https://github.com/openai/whisper
  13. …quite interesting and is due to the data that Whisper (the transcription service) was trained on: https://github.com/openai/whisper/discussions/928
  14. …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…
  15. …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
  16. …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
  17. OpenAI Whisper https://github.com/openai/whisper
  18. …good and several of the output formats include time codes, works with multiple languages. https://github.com/openai/whisper
  19. Is there any indication that USM will be open sourced though? This is more so competing with Whisper. https://github.com/openai/whisper
  20. …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
  21. …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
  22. …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
  23. …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?
  24. …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?
  25. https://github.com/openai/whisper/
  26. …brand capitalization. [0]: https://openai.com/blog/introducing-chatgpt-and-whisper-apis... [1]: https://github.com/openai/whisper
  27. 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)
  28. …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
  29. …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…
  30. …will likely improve accuracy for that specific domain. Whisper source is very readable, check out https://github.com/openai/whisper/blob/main/whisper/decoding...
  31. …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…
  32. …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
  33. I thought for Whisper ( https://github.com/openai/whisper ) you actually do not need GPU's and can use a CPU?
  34. > 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
  35. …and looking a lot like future value; as opposed to showing an immediate route to profit. [0] https://github.com/openai/whisper
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    Robust Speech Recognition via Large-Scale Weak Supervision – OpenAI
    story by modinfo · 2023-01-18 · 0 comments
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    Show HN: Windows port of OpenAI's Whisper automatic speech recognition model
    story by Const-me · 2023-01-16 · 20 comments
  38. > 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
  39. …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
  40. 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?
  41. OpenAI’s whisper[1] should do the job for you. [1] - https://github.com/openai/whisper
  42. …by building the discipline necessary to prevent myself from getting distracted in that manner. [1] https://github.com/openai/whisper
  43. Convenient link: https://github.com/openai/whisper
  44. Isn't this it? https://github.com/openai/whisper
  45. …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!)…
  46. …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](…
  47. Other people reporting accuracy issues https://github.com/openai/whisper/discussions/657
  48. …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...
  49. …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…
  50. …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