The Most Recent OpenAI Model: Whisper
Last Updated on July 18, 2023 by Editorial Team
Author(s): Louis Bouchard
Originally published on Towards AI.
A good transcription tool that would accurately understand what you say and write it down

https://www.youtube.com/embed/uFOkMme19Zs
Have you ever dreamed of a good transcription tool that would accurately understand what you say and write it down? Not like the automatic YouTube translation tools… I mean, they are good but far from perfect. Just try it out and turn the feature on for my video above, and you’ll see what I’m talking about. Well, OpenAI just released and open-sourced a pretty powerful AI model just for that: Whisper. It even understands stuff I can’t even comprehend, not being a native English speaker (listen in the video)! And it works for language translation too!
The results and precision are… Read the full blog for free on Medium.
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