Audio / Speech91

Whisper large v3

Company OpenAI

Model type Speech-to-text

Latest large Whisper checkpoints with broad language coverage and noisy-audio tolerance.

PricingOpen weights / API

Accesshttps://openai.com/research/whisper

Updated2026-05-06

Best for

Transcription, captions, meeting notes, and on-device STT.

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