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Whisper: OpenAI releases open-source speech recognition model
Matthias Bastian, The Decoder, 2022
Read the originalRead on October 17, 2026
- What it is
- A September 2022 news report on OpenAI's release of Whisper as a free, open-source speech recognition model. It quotes Greg Brockman's post announcing the release, which is dated September 21, 2022.
- How much weight it carries
- A news article, not an OpenAI announcement, and OpenAI's own blog post was not retrievable for this check. It is used only for the release date, which the article's byline and the embedded post both give.
Facts taken from this source
- OpenAI released Whisper as open-source software on September 21, 2022.
“Available today as open-source: ... Greg Brockman (@gdb) September 21, 2022” (Embedded post by Greg Brockman, dated September 21, 2022)