OpenAI's Whisper is another case study in Colonisation
On 21 September OpenAI dropped Whisper, a speech recognition model trained on 680,000 hours of audio taken from the web. The highlight:it enables transcription in multiple languages, as well as translation from those languages into English. We are open-sourcing models and inference code to serve as a foundation for building useful applications and for further research on robust speech processing.The ability for a single model to transcribe in multiple languages is ground-breaking for natural lan...
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