Whisper – open source speech recognition by OpenAI
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#2I'm not in the Speech Recognition circles and am looking for open source speech recognition I can play around with - would this be the new state of the art?
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#3Looking forward to see if this works well with foreign accents
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#4Are there any published benchmarks available outlining how this compares to other open source ASR software, such as Coqui.ai?
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#5Neat, https://github.com/openai/whisper - they have open-sourced it, even the model weights, so they are living up to their name in this instance.
The 4 examples are stunningly good (the examples have speakers with heavy accents, speaking in foreign language, speaking with dynamic background noise, etc.), this is far and away better than anything else I've seen. Will be super curious to see other folks trying it out and seeing if it's as robust as it seems, including when confronted with audio speech with natural tics and uhhh's and uhmm's and everything in-between.
I think it's fair to say that AI-transcription accuracy is now decidedly superior to the average human's, what the implications of this are I'm not sure.
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#6I’ve been experimenting with voice-interfaces where typing is replaced by talking, but I find it hard to transition users to voice - we ‘seem’ to prefer typing to talking.
I wonder if this will change.
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#7AI speech recognition FN scares the heck out of me...
for so many reasons.
But one that really pisses me off is not being able to turn it off on the iphone, and the fact that aside from "hidden cameras in my airBnB" -- soon we will have to worry about secret listening machines EVERYWHERE
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#8That example at the top of the page (speed talking) blew me away. He started talking, I was stunned for a minute, then realised yes, it really was English, and I just burst out laughing.
That's so, so far beyond the previous state-of-the-art, it's absurd.
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#9Looking forward to see if this works well with foreign accents
They have an example in the post with a very thick Scottish accent. You should listen to it. It's pretty impressive.
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#10It seems like OpenAI are finally living up to their name for once with this release? Anything I'm missing?
From what I can gather:
1. Includes model weights. I can't find the URL, but they reference them enough and have a CLI tool, so I presume I just haven't found them yet.
2. Includes code: https://github.com/openai/whisper
3. Released under MIT License: https://github.com/openai/whisper/blob/main/LICENSE