Whisper
OpenAI's open-source speech-to-text — the de-facto baseline.
Whisper is OpenAI's open-source speech recognition model. Free to self-host, multilingual, and the baseline against which everything else is measured. Also available via OpenAI's API for those who don't want to run a GPU.
Pros
- ✅ Free, open weights
- ✅ Multilingual
- ✅ Strong baseline accuracy
Cons
- ⚠️ No diarisation built in
- ⚠️ Hallucinations on silent segments
Use cases
transcriptionself-hostedmultilingual
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