GPT-4o Transcribe
OpenAI's hosted speech-to-text model — more accurate than Whisper via the API
Verdict
OpenAI's own successor to Whisper for API use — built on a GPT-4o-class audio model with materially lower word-error rates, especially on accented speech and noisy audio. Streaming supported. Whisper remains the right call when you need to self-host; this is the right call when you're already calling the API. OpenAI has since added a newer gpt-transcribe model at a lower per-minute price ($0.0045 against $0.006), so compare the two before committing.
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