OpenAI

Whisper

Universally accurate speech-to-text and translation.

Multilingual transcriptionRobustness to accents and noiseOpen-source availabilityTranslation capabilities
Today's score
98.0
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Where it ranks today

Best for / Not great for

Best for
  • Transcribing podcasts
  • Meeting summarization
  • Video captioning
  • Cross-lingual communication tools
Not great for
  • Real-time low-latency applications
  • Highly stylized voice cloning
  • Generating original spoken content

Why it ranks here

Whisper remains the benchmark for speech-to-text due to its exceptional accuracy, multilingual support, and robustness. Its open-source nature fuels widespread adoption and continuous improvement, making it the go-to for transcription tasks.

30-day trend

Score breakdown

Search trends99
Benchmarks97
Developer buzz98
News mentions96

Pricing

API: $0.00 in · $0.00 out per 1M tokens · Consumer: $0.00/mo

Pricing plans

Popular
OpenAI API
Pay-as-you-go for accurate transcription.
$0.01 /usage
  • Industry-leading accuracy
  • Multiple language support
  • Translation to English
  • Batch processing
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Self-hosted
Free and open-source model.
Free
  • Full control
  • No usage limits
  • Community support
  • Customizable
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