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Whisper Base
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by OpenAI
OPEN WEIGHTSLOCALCHINA-MADEUS-MADEAPICLOSED
RANKED #12 OF 25 AUDIO · OVERALL #303 OF 6,603 · VIBE SCORE 5.6 · 27 VOICES
whisper-base-gguf on Hugging Face (automatic speech recognition). 10,158 downloads. Open weights for local or hosted use.
HAPPY10.0
4 mentions
SAD-
0 mentions
VIBE TRAJECTORY
26 weeks · 42 voices
HOLDING UP
Recent vibe is steady. No clear fade in the crowd.
HOW TO USE IT
Open weights. You can use a hosted service, or download it and run it yourself, free.
WHAT THE INTERNET SAYS
People are mostly frustrated with Whisper Base right now. Biggest gripe: speed.
27 POSTS · 0 COMMENTS · REDDIT · DEV FORUMS · GITHUB
PEOPLE LOVE
- No fan mail yet. The crowd is still warming up.
PEOPLE COMPLAIN ABOUT
- It can feel slow (5 mentions)
- Outages, errors, or limits get in the way (3 mentions)
TOPIC BY TOPIC
- SpeedA SORE SPOT
0 thumbs up · 5 thumbs down
- Working when you need itA SORE SPOT
0 thumbs up · 3 thumbs down
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- REDDIT · 2026-08-13 · 6 UPVOTESFaster alternatives to Pyannote on Whisper?
Faster alternatives to Pyannote on Whisper?
- REDDIT · 2025-03-14 · 6 UPVOTESThe task list I used to create a SuperWhisper clone using Cursor
The task list I used to create a SuperWhisper clone using Cursor
- REDDIT · 2026-07-14 · 2 UPVOTESWritHer: Open-source voice assistant & dictation for Windows running 100% locally on Ollama + Whisper
WritHer: Open-source voice assistant & dictation for Windows running 100% locally on Ollama + Whisper
- REDDIT · 2026-08-13 · 1 UPVOTESFaster alternatives to Pyannote on Whisper?
Faster alternatives to Pyannote on Whisper?
- DEV FORUMS · 2026-06-25 · 1 UPVOTESAI VTuber For Beginners/non-programmers Easy To setup
AI VTuber For Beginners/non-programmers Easy To setup
- GITHUB · 2026-09-08 · 0 UPVOTESfix(asr): use Whisper large-v3-turbo
fix(asr): use Whisper large-v3-turbo
- GITHUB · 2026-08-31 · 0 UPVOTES[HELD — causation unproven] Desktop UA classification + Whisper base→small
[HELD — causation unproven] Desktop UA classification + Whisper base→small
- GITHUB · 2026-09-01 · 0 UPVOTESfeat(registry): add onnx-asr whisper-base STT fighter for tr-TR
feat(registry): add onnx-asr whisper-base STT fighter for tr-TR
- GITHUB · 2026-09-01 · 0 UPVOTESUse multilingual Whisper base model
Use multilingual Whisper base model
- GITHUB · 2026-09-02 · 0 UPVOTESfeat(stt): the gateway hears — MOXIE_STT=gateway is a one-line switch, local whisper stays first class
feat(stt): the gateway hears — MOXIE_STT=gateway is a one-line switch, local whisper stays first class
- GITHUB · 2026-08-18 · 0 UPVOTESVOX-006: Put every model call behind one swappable-arm interface
VOX-006: Put every model call behind one swappable-arm interface
- GITHUB · 2026-09-01 · 0 UPVOTESAdd NB-Whisper (Norwegian Whisper fine-tunes) as whisper variants
Add NB-Whisper (Norwegian Whisper fine-tunes) as whisper variants