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Whisper
▲ HOT★ NEW◆ OPEN
by OpenAI
OPEN WEIGHTSLOCALAPICLOSED
RANKED #24 OF 88 IMAGES · OVERALL #102 OF 6,446 · VIBE SCORE 6.3 · 214 VOICES
Embedding model for semantic search, retrieval, clustering, and ranking pipelines
HAPPY9.6
9 mentions
SAD5.4
7 mentions
VIBE TRAJECTORY
26 weeks · 357 voices
TOO QUIET
Not enough weekly voices to call a trend yet.
HOW TO USE IT
Open weights. You can use a hosted service, or download it and run it yourself, free.
RUN IT ON YOUR OWN MACHINE
Open weights: download Whisper once and it's yours. No subscription, no rate limits, works offline.
1.55B parameters for large-v3 (FP16 weights ~3.1 GB, Q4 quantized ~1 GB, with tiny at 39M parameters)
- BARE MINIMUM
Raspberry Pi 5 (8GB) or basic quad-core CPU laptop
8 GB RAM
~$80whisper.cpp tiny/base models on CPU, ~2x real-time transcription
- SWEET SPOT
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 12GB
12 GB VRAM
~$250 USEDfaster-whisper large-v3 in FP16 or INT8, ~15x real-time transcription
- FULL POWER
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 24GB
24 GB VRAM
~$1750batched large-v3 FP16 high-throughput audio pipelines, ~40x real-time transcription
LEARN HOW TO SET IT UP
RUNS INWHISPER.CPPFASTER-WHISPERMACWHISPERBUZZPINOKIO
WILL MY BOX RUN WHISPER?
The three cards above are researched picks. Search the machine you actually have — we only say yes if it should reply at a usable speed, not just load the weights and crawl.
HARDWARE PICKS & PRICES ARE RESEARCHED FROM THE LIVE WEB AND REFRESHED AUTOMATICALLY. TREAT THEM AS BALLPARK, NOT GOSPEL.
WHAT CAN YOU ACTUALLY DO WITH IT?
Everyday jobs on each of those rigs: how long Whisper takes, and how good the crowd says it is at that kind of work.
| THE JOB | BARE MINIMUMRaspberry Pi 5 (8GB) or basic quad-core CPU laptop | SWEET SPOTNVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 12GB | FULL POWERNVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 24GB |
|---|---|---|---|
| Make an imageone picture at normal settings | —★★★★★ | —★★★★★ | —★★★★★ |
STARS ARE THE COMMUNITY SCORE FOR THAT KIND OF WORK, DOCKED FOR HOW SQUASHED THE WEIGHTS GET AT EACH TIER. A DASH MEANS NO SPEED WAS RESEARCHED FOR THAT RIG. TIMES ARE COMPUTED FROM RESEARCHED SPEEDS. BALLPARK, NOT GOSPEL.
WHAT THE INTERNET SAYS
People are mostly frustrated with Whisper right now. Biggest praise: price. Biggest gripe: saying no too much.
198 POSTS · 16 COMMENTS · GITHUB · REDDIT · DEV.TO · BLOG · LEMMY
PEOPLE LOVE
- People feel it is worth the money (2 mentions)
PEOPLE COMPLAIN ABOUT
- Refuses or lectures more than people like (11 mentions)
- Outages, errors, or limits get in the way (3 mentions)
TOPIC BY TOPIC
- Saying no too muchA SORE SPOT
0 thumbs up · 11 thumbs down
- Working when you need itMIXED FEELINGS
2 thumbs up · 3 thumbs down
- PriceMOSTLY POSITIVE
2 thumbs up · 1 thumbs down
IN THEIR OWN WORDS
- FROM GITHUB >
“Measured on an M1 Pro with ggml-tiny.en and a real whisper-server, a warm request drops from ~300 ms to ~90 ms; the saving grows with the model size and with a CUDA or Vulkan context, where building the context is the expensive part.”
LOOKING FOR AN ALTERNATIVE?
Other models the crowd has fully reviewed, starting with images models like this one.
V1.1
Midjourney> SOURCES (12)
- BLOG · 2025-05-13 · 32 UPVOTESBlazingly fast whisper transcriptions with Inference Endpoints
Blazingly fast whisper transcriptions with Inference Endpoints
- BLOG · 2023-12-20 · 32 UPVOTESSpeculative Decoding for 2x Faster Whisper Inference
Speculative Decoding for 2x Faster Whisper Inference
- BLOG · 2022-11-03 · 32 UPVOTESFine-Tune Whisper For Multilingual ASR with 🤗 Transformers
Fine-Tune Whisper For Multilingual ASR with 🤗 Transformers
- BLOG · 2024-04-24 · 32 UPVOTESIntroducing ChatGPT and Whisper APIs
Introducing ChatGPT and Whisper APIs
- BLOG · 2022-09-21 · 32 UPVOTESIntroducing Whisper
We’ve trained and are open-sourcing a neural net called Whisper that approaches human level robustness and accuracy on English speech recognition.
- BLOG · 2024-04-24 · 32 UPVOTESGPT-4 API general availability and deprecation of older models in the Completions API
GPT-3.5 Turbo, DALL·E and Whisper APIs are also generally available, and we are releasing a deprecation plan for older models of the Completions API, which will retire at the beginning of 2024.
- BLOG · 2025-03-25 · 32 UPVOTESAddendum to GPT-4o System Card: 4o image generation
4o image generation is a new, significantly more capable image generation approach than our earlier DALL·E 3 series of models. It can create photorealistic output. It can take images as inputs and transform them.
- BLOG · 2023-11-06 · 32 UPVOTESNew models and developer products announced at DevDay
GPT-4 Turbo with 128K context and lower prices, the new Assistants API, GPT-4 Turbo with Vision, DALL·E 3 API, and more.
- BLOG · 2023-10-19 · 32 UPVOTESDALL·E 3 is now available in ChatGPT Plus and Enterprise
We developed a safety mitigation stack to ready DALL·E 3 for wider release and are sharing updates on our provenance research.
- BLOG · 2023-10-03 · 32 UPVOTESDALL·E 3 system card
DALL·E 3 system card
- GITHUB · 2026-09-03 · 1 UPVOTESRebuild the Whisper Android AAR for 16 KB memory pages
Rebuild the Whisper Android AAR for 16 KB memory pages
- GITHUB · 2026-09-02 · 1 UPVOTES[CI/Build] Continue Whisper GPU capacity fix on current main
[CI/Build] Continue Whisper GPU capacity fix on current main