Multimodality · 2022

Robust Speech Recognition via Large-Scale Weak Supervision (Whisper)

Alec Radford, Jong Wook Kim, Tao Xu, Greg Brockman

Trained a single speech model on a very large, weakly-labeled multilingual corpus, achieving robust zero-shot transcription and translation without dataset-specific fine-tuning.

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Whisper is an encoder-decoder Transformer trained on hundreds of thousands of hours of diverse audio-text pairs scraped from the web, covering many languages and tasks in one model. It approaches specialized systems zero-shot and is resilient to accents and noise. Its open release made strong speech recognition broadly available.

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Record ID
P-531
Record created
2026-07-13
Last reviewed
2026-07-14
Record version
2

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