What is Whisper OpenAI

What is Whisper OpenAI refers to OpenAI’s robust automatic speech recognition system that converts spoken language into text across 99 languages with remarkable accuracy and noise tolerance. This transformer-based neural network was trained on 680,000 hours of multilingual audio data from the internet, enabling zero-shot performance without language-specific fine-tuning. Whisper handles diverse audio conditions including background noise, accents, and technical terminology through its encoder-decoder architecture. The model supports multiple tasks including transcription, translation to English, language identification, and voice activity detection. Available in several sizes from tiny (39M parameters) to large (1550M parameters), Whisper balances computational efficiency with accuracy requirements. Its open-source availability enables integration into custom workflows and applications. For AI agents, Whisper provides essential speech-to-text capabilities enabling voice interfaces, real-time transcription, and multilingual communication.