-: What is OpenAI Whisper?
It's an open-source audio transcription model.
It was made by OpenAI,
and it was based on the Transformer model.
So, very similar to what powers ChatGPT-4,
but it's specifically built for transcription,
so audio transcription.
It's actually available open-source as code.
You can also use the API,
so they have access through the OpenAI API
for a very, very cheap cost actually.
And it's used for audio transcription.
It's also used for translation,
so you can actually get the transcription
in a different language if you want.
So what are the features?
Really straightforward.
It's not a, you know, kind of fully fledged LLM.
It's just specifically for this one use case.
So, transcription and translation.
What have I been using it for?
I've mostly been using it for YouTube transcripts,
so downloading a YouTube video and then transcribing it.
Also, podcasts, you can do the same for that,
like some people have built tools that transcribe podcasts.
And then it's also being used by OpenAI in the mobile app,
the iOS app, that they've released.
So it gets access to your microphone
and it uses Whisper to translate the audio into text.
So you can actually speak to the app,
and then the text appears and is fed into ChatGPT.
It's a really useful model, it performs unreasonably well,
and I would say it's probably the default now
for audio transcription.
So try it and see how you get on.