Whisper (2022) by OpenAI

Record 010 · Voice · 2022

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Whisper

OpenAI

“The speech model that made local transcription better than most cloud APIs.”

Whisper's weights, then whisper.cpp and faster-whisper, turned meeting notes and HA voice into something that never leaves the machine.

Opened local speech-to-text as a solved hobby.

Official site
  • Robust multilingual ASR
  • Open weights
  • CPU ports via whisper.cpp

ASR weights you can run in the kitchen.