OpenAI Whisper Transcription

Cluster focuses on recommendations for OpenAI's Whisper model and implementations like whisper.cpp for accurate, local speech-to-text transcription, with comparisons to alternatives like Vosk and DeepSpeech.

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spullara Sep 27, 2022 View on HN

If you aren't already using OpenAI Whisper for this, you should probably try it.

qup Oct 23, 2023 View on HN

whisper is very good, I wouldn't use anything else personally. it's free and open, you can run it locally. it makes very few errors (for my own voice, anyway)https://github.com/openai/whisper

selfhoster11 Mar 30, 2023 View on HN

Whisper democratises high-quality transcription of the languages I personally care about, whether using a CPU or a GPU. It's FOSS, self-hostable, and very easy to use.That's a big deal for someone who wants to build something using speech recognition (voice assistant, transcription of audio or video) without resorting to APIs.

Tepix Jun 28, 2025 View on HN

Have you tried faster-whisper and whisper.cpp?

NiekvdMaas Apr 5, 2023 View on HN

Nice!Are you aware that whisper.cpp has a WASM-version as well? See https://github.com/ggerganov/whisper.cpp/tree/master/example... - demo at https://whisper.ggerganov.com/

sipjca Jul 27, 2025 View on HN

Been working on https://handy.computer. It's similar to SuperWhisper and others, but is open source and cross platformIt uses whisper.cpp under the hood and should be accelerated on most devices using the Vulkan backend

crakenzak Sep 28, 2023 View on HN

whisper from OpenAI works great for me.

zitterbewegung Aug 23, 2023 View on HN

There is a great library that has support not only with OpenAIs whisper but many others that also work offline. https://github.com/Uberi/speech_recognition

not_the_fda Aug 24, 2023 View on HN

Is this just a front end to OpanAI's whisper?https://github.com/openai/whisper

zerop Aug 5, 2021 View on HN

Vosk is my favourite. I have used deep speech too. Vosk works better.