Whisper
Whisper is a general-purpose speech recognition model developed by OpenAI and made available via the OpenAI API under the model ID whisper-1. It was trained on a large dataset of diverse audio, enabling it to handle a wide range of accents, background noise conditions, and technical vocabulary. What distinguishes Whisper is its multitask design: it can perform not only speech-to-text transcription but also speech translation into English and automatic language identification within a single model.