Whisper Large V3
OpenAI's open-source speech recognition model — gold standard for ASR
Verdict
Best open-source ASR model by far. 99 languages, timestamps, speaker diarization via community extensions. Self-host for free or use via API. Essential for any transcription pipeline.
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