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Key capabilities

About this model

The Whisper models are trained for speech recognition and translation tasks, capable of transcribing speech audio into the text in the language it is spoken (automatic speech recognition) as well as translated into English (speech translation).

Key model capabilities

• Speech recognition (automatic speech recognition)
• Speech translation into English
• Processing of audio up to 25mb per API request

Use cases

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Key use cases

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Out of scope use cases

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Pricing

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

Technical specs

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Training cut-off date

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Training time

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Input formats

Max request data size: 25mb of audio can be converted from speech to text per API request.

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

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Optimizing model performance

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Additional assets

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Training disclosure

Training, testing and validation

Researchers at OpenAI developed the models to study the robustness of speech processing systems trained under large-scale weak supervision.

Distribution

Distribution channels

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