whisper

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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