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Whisper API is a cloud-hosted speech-to-text service by OpenAI that uses large neural speech models to transcribe and translate audio. It supports multiple languages, streaming and batch modes, and automatic language detection. It is designed for integration into applications requiring accurate ASR via a REST API.
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The Whisper API turns spoken language into text with an OpenAI model and can transcribe audio files in multiple languages.
The Whisper API builds on Whisper, a robust speech-recognition system released as open source by OpenAI. OpenAI then offered a hosted interface so applications could use transcription without operating the model themselves.
An application sends an audio file to the service and selects the appropriate transcription mode. The API processes the signal server-side and returns recognized text for storage or further processing.
Spoken language is returned as text.
An audio file is sent to the interface.
A model recognizes words and speech patterns in the audio signal.
The Whisper API shortens the path from recordings to searchable or processable text.
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