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OpenAI Whisper

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Robust speech recognition you can run anywhere

Best for github · speech · transcription

4.7
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★ 90,000 on GitHub
Toolora score93/100

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.

Closest alternatives on Toolora: AssemblyAI, Deepgram, Ollama.

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