OpenAI open-sources Whisper
Open-sourced Whisper — weakly supervised training on 680,000 hours of multilingual data
Why it matters
Commoditized multilingual ASR, making speech a standard input to LLM pipelines
Source — Primary sources first; secondary reports are labelled “Press”
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