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Model profile

OpenAI · released 6 Nov 2023 (35 months ago) · audio

Whisper large-v3

Open-weight speech recognition model with strong multilingual transcription accuracy.

Source: OpenAI announcement · Updated 6 Nov 2023 · provider announcement

Capabilities

Capability ratings

Editorial assessment of what the system can do on each axis, 0-100. Capability is not adoption and not employment impact.

Summary

Cheap, accurate transcription at scale — the direct technical basis for replacing manual transcription.

Peak capability92/100

Strongest axis for this model.

Mean capability84/100

Average across all rated axes.

Timeline: Released 6 Nov 2023

Impact

Occupations affected by Whisper large-v3 (4)

Occupations with published evidence mapped to this model. A model being able to do something is not evidence that firms use it.

  • Whisper large-v3 provides open-weight multilingual speech recognition, allowing transcription to be run at scale for the cost of compute alone.

  • Whisper large-v3 provides open-weight multilingual speech recognition, allowing transcription to be run at scale for the cost of compute alone.

  • Whisper large-v3 provides open-weight multilingual speech recognition, allowing transcription to be run at scale for the cost of compute alone.

  • Whisper large-v3 provides open-weight multilingual speech recognition, allowing transcription to be run at scale for the cost of compute alone.

Provenance

Where this record came from

GitHub repository
openai/whisper

Release records cite the provider announcement. Open-weight releases also link to their public model and repository pages where available. Read /methodology for how capability ratings are produced.