Maybe the second-best-thing to come out of OpenAI after ChatGPT. Whisper is an open-source program that has revolutionized speech-to-text. Now, anyone has access to high-quality, high-speed transcription directly on their phone or computer. Programmers have had a field day with this technology. I find myself using speech-to-text all the time, in programs ranging from [[Granophone]] to experimental tools like [[Voicebox]]. # Using Whisper in a Python Application The `openai-whisper` package makes it incredibly easy to start integrating Whisper into an application: 1. Install globally via pip3 `pip3 install openai-whisper` 2. You should now be able to call whisper directly on an audio file `whisper audio.mp3` 3. You can also call whisper via python ``` import whisper model = whisper.load_model('base') result = model.transcribe("file.mp3") print(result['text']) ```