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Glossary

What is Whisper (speech recognition)?

Whisper is OpenAI's open-source speech-recognition model, widely used to transcribe audio and runnable entirely on your own hardware.

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In depth

What it means.

  • Because the model weights are open, Whisper can run locally — including on Apple Silicon GPUs — instead of calling a paid cloud API.
  • Humla bundles a local Whisper engine (a quantised large-v3-turbo model) and a Norwegian-tuned NB Whisper model, so on-device transcription is free after a one-time download.
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Where this comes up.

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