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# whisper

Automatic Speech Recognition • OpenAI

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Whisper is a general-purpose speech recognition model. It is trained on a large dataset of diverse audio and is also a multitasking model that can perform multilingual speech recognition, speech translation, and language identification.

| Model Info       |                                               |
| ---------------- | --------------------------------------------- |
| More information | [link ↗](https://openai.com/research/whisper) |
| Unit Pricing     | $0.00045 per audio minute                     |

## Parameters

Option 1

stringformat: binary

▶Option 2{}

object

text

`string`The transcription

word\_count

`number`

▶words\[\]

`array`

vtt

`string`

## API Schemas (Raw)

Input

Output

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