OpenAI's most advanced speech recognition system
Trained on 680,000 hours of multilingual data. Whisper AI approaches human-level transcription accuracy on clear audio.
Native support for nearly 100 languages. Automatic language detection or manual selection. No additional language packs.
Robust performance on background noise, music, and imperfect audio conditions. Trained on real-world web audio.
Handles domain-specific terminology, code-switching between languages, and proper nouns effectively.
Word-level or segment-level timestamps. Essential for video captioning and navigating long recordings.
Plain text, SRT subtitles, VTT captions, or JSON with metadata. Match your workflow requirements.
Whisper AI is OpenAI's automatic speech recognition system released in September 2022. Unlike previous speech recognition systems trained on limited, curated datasets, Whisper was trained on 680,000 hours of multilingual audio data collected from the web.
This massive, diverse training set gives Whisper AI unusual robustness. It handles accents, background noise, technical vocabulary, and multiple languages better than systems trained on cleaner but smaller datasets.
Whisper AI comes in five sizes, each balancing accuracy against computational requirements:
Desktop applications provide the simplest way to use Whisper AI. Download, install, and start transcribing. All models included. No technical setup required.
OpenAI offers Whisper as a cloud API at $0.006 per minute. Upload audio files, receive transcriptions. Consistent performance without local hardware requirements.
Technical users can install Whisper AI directly via Python and pip. Requires CUDA setup for GPU acceleration. Maximum control over processing pipeline.