Whisper - Robust Speech Recognition OpenAI's multilingual speech recognition model. When to use Whisper Use when: - Speech-to-text transcription (99 languages) - Podcast/video transcription - Meeting notes automation - Translation to English - Noisy audio transcription - Multilingual audio processing Metrics : - 72,900+ GitHub stars - 99 languages supported - Trained on 680,000 hours of audio - MIT License Use alternatives instead : - AssemblyAI : Managed API, speaker diarization - Deepgram : Real-time streaming ASR - Google Speech-to-Text : Cloud-based Quick start Installation Basic transcri…