Python

Whisper

OpenAI's open speech-to-text baseline

by openai · MIT

From the README

Install

pip install setuptools-rust

Excerpts from the project README on GitHub. Copyright and licensing remain with the respective authors.

What is Whisper?

Whisper is OpenAI's open-weight speech-to-text model and reference implementation, widely used as the baseline for self-hosted transcription.

Why people choose Whisper

• Strong multilingual accuracy
• Open weights under MIT
• The de-facto reference for STT

Whisper at a glance

Open-source alternatives to Whisper

Other open-source speech (stt / tts) tools worth comparing:

faster-whisperWhisper, much faster and lighterWhisperXWhisper plus word timestamps and diarizationPiperFast, local neural text-to-speechCoqui TTSDeep-learning TTS with voice cloningBarkText-to-audio with voices and effectsF5-TTSZero-shot voice cloning that actually convincesKokoroTiny 82M TTS with astonishing qualityVozoDub video in the speaker's own cloned voicewhisper.cppWhisper in pure C/C++, runs anywhereOpenVoiceClone a voice and control its emotionStyleTTS 2Human-level speech synthesispyannote.audioKnow who spoke whenSilero VADDetect speech in audio, instantlyNeumeTurns a text prompt into a sung, mixed song with lyricsunWarpRecords calls and voice memos into searchable notes.YapHold a key, speak, and the text is typed at your cursor.

Whisper head-to-head

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