Whisper

Whisper is OpenAI's well-established open-weight speech recognition model, and this is a hosted browser demo of it — no setup, no API key, just drop in audio and get text out. The model itself is not new and is not the story here; if you have not used Whisper before, this is a low-friction way to test transcription quality on your own audio before committing to an integration. Multi-language support is real and works reasonably well. Reservation: this is a demo, not a production path. Latency is slower than running Whisper locally or hitting the API directly, and there is no batch mode. If you are evaluating whether Whisper fits a product feature, test here first, then move to a self-hosted instance or the API before drawing conclusions about real-world speed. For anyone already shipping Whisper in production, there is nothing new here. -> Best for: indie hacker evaluating speech-to-text before committing to an integration