Whisper: multilingual speech recognition

Posted 17 Oct 2026

An encoder-decoder speech model that transcribes many languages, translates speech into English and detects the spoken language, all from one network.

OrganizationOpenAI
Released2022
Sizestiny (39M) to large (1.55B); turbo (809M)
LicenseMIT (code and weights)
  • Input audio is converted to log-Mel spectrograms
  • Special decoder tokens pick the task: transcribe, translate or identify the language
  • English-only .en variants exist for the smaller sizes
  • turbo is a faster large-v3 variant, not trained for translation

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FrameworkPyTorch
SpeechNLP