Whisper
Overview
OpenAI's open-source general-purpose speech recognition family for multilingual transcription, speech translation and language identification, released under the MIT license and a de-facto open ASR baseline; OpenAI also serves it as a hosted API (whisper-1).
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Plain-language benchmarks
Practical facts
| Context length | Not disclosed |
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| Max output | Not disclosed |
| Parameters | Not disclosed |
| Input | Not disclosed |
| Output price | Not disclosed |
| CNY | Not disclosed |
| Free tier | Open weights, free to self-host. |
| Output speed | Not disclosed |
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| License | Not disclosed |
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Technical benchmark table
| Benchmark | Score | Max / unit | Source type | Source | Test date | Conditions |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ASR word error rate asr-wer | 2.7% | percent / 100 | Independent test | LibriSpeech test-clean(干净朗读英语);越低越好。注:另有第三方称同测试集约 2.01%,数值随评测实现有出入,见 gaps |
| Version | Release date | Status | Openness | Parameters | What changed | Detail | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| large-v3-turbo | Active | Open source | Not disclosed | Speed-optimised cut of large-v3: decoder pruned to 4 layers, ~809M parameters, several times faster at near-equal accuracy. | Detail | ||
| large-v3Showing version | Active | Open source | Not disclosed | Released at OpenAI DevDay 2023: 128 Mel bins, added Cantonese token, trained on ~5M hours including pseudo-labelled audio. | Detail | ||
| large-v2 | Superseded | Open source | Not disclosed | Improved training and regularisation over the original large model. | Detail | ||
| Whisper 首发(tiny→large 五档) | Superseded | Open source | Not disclosed | Open-sourced September 2022, trained on ~680k hours of weakly supervised audio, code and weights under MIT. | Detail |
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