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Whisper ASR Webservice

Self-hosted speech-to-text API powered by OpenAI Whisper

Self-Hosted AI ★ 3.3k stars Easy setup MIT

Whisper ASR Webservice wraps OpenAI's Whisper and faster-whisper models in a Dockerized REST API for speech recognition. It supports transcription and translation of audio files in many languages.

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Key features

  • REST transcription API
  • Multiple Whisper engines
  • Many language support
  • Easy Docker deployment

Strengths

  • Released under the MIT license
  • Easy to set up — beginner-friendly
  • First-class Docker support for quick deployment
  • Active community (3.3k GitHub stars)

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