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What is whisper (speech recognition)?

Whisper is an open speech-to-text model released by OpenAI that transcribes speech in many languages.

Updated October 20262 min readZoomr 1.15.1

Zoomr runs Whisper inside your browser (via transformers.js and ONNX Runtime), so your audio never leaves your computer. The model downloads once (about 40–80 MB).