Whisper Large v3
PermissiveOpenAI · Whisper · Released 2023-11
1.55BAudio
The de facto open standard for speech recognition, with strong multilingual accuracy and no usage restrictions.
Strengths
- +Apache 2.0, unrestricted use
- +Strong multilingual transcription and translation
- +Mature ecosystem (faster-whisper, whisper.cpp, WhisperX)
Limitations
- -Slower than the large-v3-turbo variant for equivalent hardware
- -Can hallucinate text during long silences or noisy audio
License
Apache 2.0
use commercially with attribution niceties
Hardware
runs on a good consumer GPU (or Apple Silicon) with quantization
Links
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