By name: whisper description: Whisper OpenAI speech recognition. Use for speech-to-text.
Whisper
Whisper (OpenAI) is the industry standard for Speech-to-Text. It supports 99 languages and translation. V3 (large-v3) is the current state of the art.
When to Use
- Transcription: Creating subtitles for videos.
- Translation: Translating audio to English text.
- Local Privacy: Runs 100% locally (sensitive meetings).
Core Concepts
Models
tiny, base, small, medium, large, legacy, large-v3, large-v3-turbo.
Distil-Whisper
Smaller, faster versions of Whisper (6x speedup, 1% accuracy loss).
Best Practices (2025)
Do:
- Use
insanely-fast-whisper: A wrapper that uses Flash Attention to transcribing 2 hours of audio in 2 minutes. - Use API for streaming: OpenAI API supports streaming audio transcription.
Don't:
- Don't use
largefor realtime: It's too slow. Useturboordistilmodels.