whisper-large-v3-turbo

Maintainer: openai

Total Score

412

Last updated 10/4/2024

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Model overview

The whisper-large-v3-turbo model is a finetuned version of the pruned Whisper large-v3 model. It is the exact same model, except that the number of decoding layers have been reduced from 32 to 4, making the model significantly faster while only experiencing a minor quality degradation. The Whisper model was proposed by Alec Radford et al. from OpenAI and demonstrates strong generalization across many datasets and domains in a zero-shot setting.

Model inputs and outputs

The whisper-large-v3-turbo model is designed for automatic speech recognition (ASR) and speech translation. It takes audio samples as input and outputs text transcriptions.

Inputs

  • Audio samples: The model accepts arbitrary length audio inputs, which it can process efficiently using a chunked inference algorithm.

Outputs

  • Text transcriptions: The model outputs text transcriptions of the input audio, either in the same language as the audio (for ASR) or in a different language (for speech translation).
  • Timestamps: The model can optionally provide timestamps for each transcribed sentence or word.

Capabilities

The whisper-large-v3-turbo model exhibits improved robustness to accents, background noise, and technical language compared to many existing ASR systems. It also demonstrates strong zero-shot translation capabilities, allowing it to transcribe audio in one language and output the text in a different language.

What can I use it for?

The whisper-large-v3-turbo model is primarily intended for AI researchers studying the capabilities, biases, and limitations of large language models. However, it can also be a useful ASR solution for developers, especially for English speech recognition tasks. The speed and accuracy of the model suggest that others may be able to build applications on top of it that allow for near-real-time speech recognition and translation.

Things to try

One key capability to explore with the whisper-large-v3-turbo model is its ability to handle long-form audio. By using the chunked inference algorithm provided in the Transformers library, the model can efficiently transcribe audio files of arbitrary length. Developers could experiment with using this feature to build applications that provide accurate transcriptions of podcasts, interviews, or other long-form audio content.

Another interesting aspect to investigate is the model's performance on non-English languages and its zero-shot translation capabilities. Users could try transcribing audio in different languages and evaluating the quality of the translations to English, as well as exploring ways to fine-tune the model for specific language pairs or domains.



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