Fact · Languages and accents
99languages
The MMS paper says Whisper's model supports the transcription of 99 different languages.
Checked against its source on October 17, 2026
In the source's own words
“their model supports the transcription of 99 different languages”
Scaling Speech Technology to 1,000+ Languages, Vineel Pratap et al., arXiv, 2023, Section 2.
Open the original- What it measures
- This is the MMS authors' description of Whisper. OpenAI's own speech-to-text guide gives a different count, 98 languages, so the number depends on the source.
- What it does not show
- The count is what the authors wrote about Whisper. It is not a count the paper made independently.