Fact · Transcription
The Whisper README's example for translating Japanese speech into English uses the medium model, the language flag set to Japanese and the translate task.
Checked against its source on October 17, 2026
In the source's own words
“whisper japanese.wav --model medium --language Japanese --task translate”
openai/whisper: README (raw text), OpenAI, GitHub (openai/whisper), 2026, Usage section, translation example.
Open the original- What it measures
- The command-line tool outputs English text when the task is translate. The README's note adds that the turbo model returns the original language even when the translate task is set, so it recommends medium or large for translation.