gpt-4o-transcribe
gpt-4o-transcribe
Version: 2025-03-20
OpenAILast updated October 2025
A cutting-edge speech-to-text solution that deliverables reliable and accurate transcripts.

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Key capabilities

About this model

The gpt-4o-transcribe model is a cutting-edge speech-to-text solution that leverages the advanced capabilities of GPT-4o to deliver highly accurate audio transcriptions.

Key model capabilities

This model offers significant improvements in word error rate and language recognition, surpassing the performance of previous models like Whisper. Designed for precision and efficiency, gpt-4o-transcribe aims to provide users with reliable and accurate transcripts. With a maximum output of 2,000 tokens, gpt-4o-transcribe can generate detailed and comprehensive transcriptions.

Use cases

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Key use cases

  1. Enhanced Customer Service: gpt-4o-transcribe can be integrated into customer support systems to transcribe customer calls in real-time. This allows for more dynamic and comprehensive interactions, enabling support agents to quickly understand and resolve customer issues
  2. Meeting Transcription: The model is highly effective for transcribing meeting notes, capturing detailed discussions and decisions made during meetings. This can be particularly useful for creating accurate records of meetings, ensuring that all participants have access to the information discussed

Out of scope use cases

Our models are not specifically designed or evaluated for all downstream purposes. Developers should consider common limitations of language models as they select use cases, and evaluate and mitigate for accuracy, safety, and fairness before using within a specific downstream use case, particularly for high-risk scenarios. Developers should be aware of and adhere to applicable laws or regulations (including privacy, trade compliance laws, etc.) that are relevant to their use case.

Pricing

Pricing is based on a number of factors, including deployment type and tokens used. See pricing details here.

Technical specs

Gpt-4o-transcribe has been pretrained on specialized audio-centric datasets, which include diverse and high-quality audio samples, ensuring a deep understanding of speech nuances. This model supports a substantial context window of 16,000 tokens, allowing it to process longer audio inputs effectively. With a maximum output of 2,000 tokens, gpt-4o-transcribe can generate detailed and comprehensive transcriptions. The training process incorporates rigorous enhancement techniques, including supervised fine-tuning and reinforcement learning, to optimize performance and accuracy.

Training cut-off date

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Training time

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Input formats

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Output formats

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Supported languages

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Sample JSON response

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Model architecture

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Long context

This model supports a substantial context window of 16,000 tokens, allowing it to process longer audio inputs effectively.

Optimizing model performance

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Additional assets

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Training disclosure

Training, testing and validation

Gpt-4o-transcribe has been pretrained on specialized audio-centric datasets, which include diverse and high-quality audio samples, ensuring a deep understanding of speech nuances. The training process incorporates rigorous enhancement techniques, including supervised fine-tuning and reinforcement learning, to optimize performance and accuracy.

Distribution

Distribution channels

This model is provided through the Azure OpenAI Service.

More information

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Responsible AI considerations

Safety techniques

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Safety evaluations

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Known limitations

Our models are not specifically designed or evaluated for all downstream purposes. Developers should consider common limitations of language models as they select use cases, and evaluate and mitigate for accuracy, safety, and fairness before using within a specific downstream use case, particularly for high-risk scenarios. Developers should be aware of and adhere to applicable laws or regulations (including privacy, trade compliance laws, etc.) that are relevant to their use case.

Acceptable use

Acceptable use policy

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Quality and performance evaluations

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Benchmarking methodology

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Public data summary

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Model Specifications
Context Length16000
LicenseCustom
Training DataMay 2024
Last UpdatedOctober 2025
Input TypeText,Audio
Output TypeText
ProviderOpenAI
Languages57 Languages