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Robust Speech Recognition via Large-Scale Weak Supervision

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Transcribe spoken words into text, translate languages, and identify different languages from audio recordings.

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pip install setuptools-rust

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Robust Speech Recognition via Large-Scale Weak Supervision

whisper has 107k stars on GitHub. It has been forked 13k times. whisper is written mainly in Python. It has been in active development since 2022. whisper is available under the MIT license.

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Robust Speech Recognition via Large-Scale Weak Supervision

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whisper is an open-source project. It is released under the MIT license.

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Yes. whisper is free and open source — you can use, modify and self-host it.

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whisper is available under the MIT license.

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whisper is written mainly in Python.

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