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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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    OpenAI Whisper
    story by tosh · 2022-12-06 · 0 comments
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    OpenAI quietly launched Whisper V2 in a GitHub commit
    story by fudged71 · 2022-12-06 · 126 comments
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    Show HN: Port of OpenAI's Whisper model in C/C++
    story by ggerganov · 2022-12-06 · 87 comments
  4. 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…
  5. …a drop in replacement for the for-profit Nuance versions of Dragon, etc. It's even open source. [0] https://github.com/openai/whisper
  6. 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...
  7. 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…
  8. 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.
  9. You can download whisper at https://github.com/openai/whisper
  10. Someone is experimenting with diarization (speaker identification) + Whisper here https://github.com/openai/whisper/discussions/264
  11. …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
  12. …Its accuracy is less good for Hebrew, but instructional materials are likely optimal input. https://github.com/openai/whisper
  13. …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...
  14. …uses it. They also release Whisper model and code[2] [1] https://github.com/openai/CLIP [2] https://github.com/openai/whisper
  15. …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
  16. However, https://github.com/openai/whisper#available-models-and-langu... says requires ~1 GB VRAM.
  17. cause ffmpeg inside https://github.com/openai/whisper/blob/main/requirements.txt should process most formats
  18. > Neat, https://github.com/openai/whisper - they have open-sourced it, even the model weights, so they are living up to their name in this instance. Perhaps it will encourage people to add voice command to their apps, which can be sent to…
  19. …to get it, and now it's currently installing. Whatever the default version that `pip install git+ https://github.com/openai/whisper.git ` grabbed didn't include it by default.
    comment by NaturalPhallacy · 2022-09-22 · in Whisper – open source speech recognition by OpenAI
  20. …the exact steps to follow to get it running on Ubuntu 22.04 via WSL and yt-dlp: 1. pip install git+https://github.com/openai/whisper.git 2. yt-dlp -f 'ba' -x --audio-format mp3 https://www.youtube.com/watch/?v\=bZkNIzeRBk4 3. renamed the…
  21. …link to the github here[1]? It seems to describe the project better for a technical audience. [1]: https://github.com/openai/whisper
    comment by londons_explore · 2022-09-21 · in Whisper – open source speech recognition by OpenAI
  22. …EDIT: Based on list of languages in the tokenizer code here, doesn’t appear IPA is supported: https://github.com/openai/whisper/blob/5f8d4bcc254d4f3e833d3...
  23. …and "nix develop" followed by "virtualenv ./venv; . ./venv/bin/activate; pip install git+ https://github.com/openai/whisper.git " { description = "Python 3.9 development environment"; outputs = { self, nixpkgs }: let system =…
  24. …their models. If Stable Diffusion is any guide, people will hack some crazy things with this. [1] https://github.com/openai/whisper [2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OFLt-KL0K7Y [3] https://github.com/openai/whisper/blob/main/LICENSE
  25. (Model weights from https://github.com/openai/whisper/blob/main/whisper/__init__... ) "tiny.en": " https://openaipublic.azureedge.net/main/whisper/models/d3dd5... " "tiny": " https://openaipublic.azureedge.net/main/whisper/models/65147...…
  26. …them enough and have a CLI tool, so I presume I just haven't found them yet. 2. Includes code: https://github.com/openai/whisper 3. Released under MIT License: https://github.com/openai/whisper/blob/main/LICENSE
  27. Neat, https://github.com/openai/whisper - they have open-sourced it, even the model weights, so they are living up to their name in this instance. The 4 examples are stunningly good (the examples have speakers with heavy accents, speaking…