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Category: Current AI Models
Category: Current AI Models
Whisper is OpenAI's speech recognition system that converts audio to text with high accuracy across many languages.
Whisper learned from 680,000 hours of multilingual audio data. It handles different accents, background noise, and technical jargon better than most speech recognition systems.
The model can also identify the language being spoken and translate speech to English in real-time.
Whisper made accurate speech recognition free and accessible. Developers can add voice features to apps without expensive proprietary systems.
It works well enough for professional transcription, making it useful for journalists, researchers, and content creators.
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