Whisper is a state-of-the-art model for automatic speech... | Whisper is a state-of-the-art model for automatic speech...
Whisper is a state-of-the-art model for automatic speech recognition (ASR) and speech translation, proposed in the paper Robust Speech Recognition via Large-Scale Weak Supervision by Alec Radford et al. from OpenAI. Trained on >5M hours of labeled data, Whisper demonstrates a strong ability to generalise to many datasets and domains in a zero-shot setting.

Whisper large-v3 has the same architecture as the previous large and large-v2 models, except for the following minor differences:

The spectrogram input uses 128 Mel frequency bins instead of 80
A new language token for Cantonese
The Whisper large-v3 model was trained on 1 million hours of weakly labeled audio and 4 million hours of pseudo-labeled audio collected using Whisper large-v2 . The model was trained for 2.0 epochs over this mixture dataset.

The large-v3 model shows improved performance over a wide variety of languages, showing 10% to 20% reduction of errors compared to Whisper large-v2 . For more details on the different checkpoints available, refer to the section Model details.

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