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Whisper

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Whisper is OpenAI's speech-to-text model available through its API that has become a widely-used baseline for automatic speech recognition tasks. Recent coverage shows Whisper competing with newer open-source ASR models in accuracy benchmarks, while also being optimized through techniques like speculative decoding for faster inference and integrated into production systems via platforms like Hugging Face and Together AI for real-time voice applications.

Updated 3 August 2026

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How to become a 10x ramble-coder TLDR · 1 week ago · 9

Best Open Speech Recognition (ASR) Models in 2026: WER, Languages, Latency, and License Compared MarkTechPost · 1 week ago · 20

How speech models fail where it matters the most and what to do about it Together AI · 5 months ago · 39

Next generation medical image interpretation with MedGemma 1.5 and medical speech to text with MedASR Google Research · 6 months ago · 38

Announcing the fastest inference for realtime voice AI agents Together AI · 8 months ago · 50

Voxtral Mistral AI · 1 year ago · 15

Blazingly fast whisper transcriptions with Inference Endpoints Hugging Face Blog · 1 year ago · 28

Powerful ASR + diarization + speculative decoding with Hugging Face Inference Endpoints Hugging Face Blog · 2 years ago · 37

Timeline

Month Quarter Year

July 2026

Andrej Karpathy advocates voice-based interaction as a method to improve AI agent alignment and task completion Other

February 2026

23 Feb How speech models fail where it matters the most and what to do about it

January 2026

13 Jan Next generation medical image interpretation with MedGemma 1.5 and medical speech to text with MedASR

November 2025

4 Nov Announcing the fastest inference for realtime voice AI agents

July 2025

15 Jul Voxtral

May 2025

13 May Blazingly fast whisper transcriptions with Inference Endpoints

May 2024

1 May Powerful ASR + diarization + speculative decoding with Hugging Face Inference Endpoints

April 2024

24 Apr GPT-4 API general availability and deprecation of older models in the Completions API

January 2024

19 Jan Fine-Tune W2V2-Bert for low-resource ASR with 🤗 Transformers

December 2023

20 Dec Speculative Decoding for 2x Faster Whisper Inference

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OpenAI develops this model · 3 sources
Together AI deploys this model · 1 source
Together AI integrated with this model · 1 source
Hugging Face integrated with this model · 1 source
Hugging Face deploys this model · 1 source

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