OpenAI Whisper

Whisper is a versatile speech recognition model.

Description

It can perform multilingual speech recognition, speech translation, and language identification. In this setup, it is typically run locally (via Whisper.cpp or Faster-Whisper) to provide transcription services.

Links

• GitHub Repository (OpenAI)
• Whisper.cpp

Alternatives

• Deepgram (Cloud)
• AssemblyAI (Cloud)

Backlog

• Implement real-time transcription for meetings via n8n.

Contribution Metadata

• Confidence: high
• Last reviewed: 2026-03-01

Sources / References

• https://github.com/openai/whisper
• https://github.com/ggerganov/whisper.cpp
• https://www.deepgram.com/