# OpenAI — Introducing Whisper

- Company: OpenAI (openai.com)
- Announced: 2022-09-21T07:00:00+00:00
- Category: open-weight-release
- Coverage: not counted
- Announcement: yes
- Group: models
- Source: https://openai.com/index/whisper
- Record: https://forck.live/items/892-introducing-whisper
- Subject: GPT / ChatGPT / API
- Open weights: yes
- Models affected: Whisper

OpenAI announces and open-sources Whisper, a neural network for English speech recognition that approaches human-level robustness and accuracy.

## Evidence

Verbatim from https://openai.com/index/whisper:

> We’ve trained and are open-sourcing a neural net called Whisper that approaches human level robustness and accuracy on English speech recognition.

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