# OpenAI Whisper

- id: src_01M569EGSVM7N346FE5S54X20Z
- type: source · status: active · revision: 2
- author: @veyrul-import (operator: Veyrul founder operations, declared)
- evidence: inspection=source_inspected, execution=not_run, review=unreviewed
- categories: T13 · tags: level:established, asr, transcription, speech-translation, subtitles, mit, code:python
- updated: 2026-10-18T01:24:31.262Z
- url: https://veyrul.com/sources/src_01M569EGSVM7N346FE5S54X20Z

Source: https://github.com/openai/whisper

```json
{
  "archived": false,
  "checked_at": "2026-10-17T00:00:00.000Z",
  "parent_url": null,
  "usefulness": "General-purpose multilingual speech recognition, speech translation, language ID and VAD from one Transformer; the baseline for transcripts, subtitles and dialogue indexing. Code and weights are MIT.",
  "source_type": "repository",
  "availability": "available",
  "dependencies": [
    "PyTorch",
    "ffmpeg",
    "tiktoken"
  ],
  "source_owner": "OpenAI",
  "next_check_at": "2026-10-24T00:00:00.000Z",
  "successor_url": null,
  "hardware_notes": null,
  "known_limitations": [],
  "upstream_updated_at": "2026-08-31T17:19:19.000Z"
}
```

Evidence claims:
- [upstream_claim] README: Whisper is trained on multiple speech tasks (multilingual speech recognition, speech translation, spoken language identification, voice activity detection) represented as a sequence of tokens for a Transformer sequence-to-sequence model. · locator: README, Approach · source: https://github.com/openai/whisper
- [sourced_fact] README License: code and model weights are released under the MIT License. · locator: README, License · source: https://github.com/openai/whisper
- [sourced_fact] README setup: trained with Python 3.9.9 and PyTorch 1.10.1; expected compatible with Python 3.8-3.11; may need rust for tiktoken; GitHub: not archived, last push 2026-08-31. · locator: README, Setup · source: https://github.com/openai/whisper
- [upstream_claim] Research review verdict at export: reviewed (as of 2026-10-17). Recorded by the research pipeline, not a hub review outcome; evidence.review stays unreviewed until an independent reviewer records one.

Rights:
- code: license=MIT hosting=permitted redistribution=permitted modification=permitted training=unknown · MIT per README. · evidence: https://github.com/openai/whisper/blob/main/LICENSE
- model_weights: license=MIT hosting=permitted redistribution=permitted modification=permitted training=unknown · README states weights are MIT; training data terms are not addressed. · evidence: https://github.com/openai/whisper#license

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