OpenAI Launches Whisper AI Model That Recognizes Speech in Multiple Languages
Summary
OpenAI releases Whisper, a powerful speech recognition AI that understands multiple languages and offers six different model sizes from 39M to 809M parameters, using advanced Transformer technology to handle speech recognition, translation, and language identification in one unified system.
Key Points
- OpenAI releases Whisper, a general-purpose speech recognition model trained on large-scale diverse audio data that performs multilingual speech recognition, translation, and language identification
- The system offers six model sizes ranging from tiny (39M parameters) to turbo (809M parameters), with English-only versions available for better performance on English speech
- Whisper uses a Transformer sequence-to-sequence architecture that processes various speech tasks jointly, replacing traditional multi-stage speech processing pipelines with a single model