OpenAI’s Whisper is a breath of fresh air. Automatic speech recognition and translation in Python!

Whisper, OpenAI’s new automatic speech recognition model, is *awesome*. In this video, I show you how to use it and present a few interesting examples of transcribing English and translating spoken German and Japanese to English. Chapters ------------------- 00:00 Introduction 00:22 Installing Whisper 00:37 Python API, model types, transcribing English 02:26 English Example (“The Magic that makes Python Tick“, by me) 02:50 English Example Discussion 03:39 CLI, translating German to English 04:20 German Example (S1 E1 Dark) 05:12 German Example Discussion 05:25 Japanese Example (S1 E1 Cowboy Bebop) 06:33 Japanese Example Discussion and Concluding Thoughts 07:45 End Card