Whisper: An Open-Source Alternative to Cloud Speech-to-Text
OpenAI's Whisper is a self-hostable alternative to Google's Speech-to-Text API, with a Flask wrapper and a C++ port covered here alongside the original model.
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OpenAI’s Whisper is a real alternative to Google’s Speech-to-Text API when self-hosting or avoiding per-request billing matters more than managed convenience. Three links worth having: the model itself, a Flask wrapper that puts it behind an API, and a C++ port for running it without a Python runtime.