Whisper Speech Recognition

Whisper is OpenAI's open-source speech recognition model that transcribes audio in 99 languages. It's available as an open-source PyTorch model (self-hosted) or via the OpenAI API. Whisper is robust to accents, background noise, and technical language—outperforming many existing speech recognition systems. Use cases: transcription apps, meeting recordings, accessibility (captions for video), voice commands, and voice-based search. Specialists integrate Whisper into applications, optimize for cost/latency, and handle edge cases (noise, multiple speakers, domain-specific language).