alt Hacker NewsGpt4o mini transcribe is better and actually realtime. Whisper is trained to encode the entire audio (or at least 30s chunks) and then decode it.
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emmettm • last Wednesday at 4:09 PM
The linked article claims the average word error rate for Voxtral mini v2 is lower than GPT-4o mini transcribe
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So "gpt4o mini transcribe" is not just whisper v3 under the hood? Btw it's $0.006 / minute
For Whisper API online (with v3 large) I've found "$0.00125 per compute second" which is the cheapest absolute I've ever found.