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OpenAI releases Whisper models and inference code

OpenAI open-sourced Whisper models and inference code for multilingual transcription and translation after training on 680,000 hours of multilingual and multitask supervised web data.

Artifacts

Whisper open-source speech model
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Model access broadened materially from controlled frontier research access toward downloadable or openly reusable model artifacts across language, translation, image generation and speech, while licenses and hardware requirements remained real constraints.
supported inference

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