What is Whisper (OSS Project)?

Q: What is Whisper (OSS Project)?

Whisper (OSS Project) is an open-source automatic speech recognition and speech translation model for multilingual audio-to-text tasks.

Whisper (OSS Project)

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Related projects Apache OpenWhisk, Apache Whirr, Orca (OSS Project), BLOOM (OSS Project), Apache OpenNLP, Apache Whisker, Qwen, XTTS Related organizations LAION, Stanford University, Argilla, Dataminr, Hugging Face, Denvr Dataworks, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, NeuML