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OpenAI Whisper

Open source

Robust speech recognition you can run anywhere

Best for github · speech · transcription

★ 90,000 on GitHub
Toolora score93/100

Our own editorial score, not public reviews.

Strengths

  • Multilingual ASR
  • Speech translation to English

Skip if

you want hosted support, not a repo to run

Whisper is OpenAI's open-source speech-to-text model family. Strong multilingual transcription and translation with simple Python APIs.

Key features

  • Multilingual ASR
  • Speech translation to English
  • Multiple model sizes
  • Huge ecosystem of forks and UIs

Why it is on Toolora

We list OpenAI Whisper for people who need github · speech · transcription. Skip it if you want hosted support, not a repo to run. It is the start-here pick when you need to get a transcript of a meeting, interview, or voice note.

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