Whisper

“Like that's over 50 companies, somewhere between a hundred K and one million where you kind of get in a seed round and the companies that have graduated out of that have been open router, whisper, axiom math.”

“If transcription engines or like whisper and things come out a year later, we're probably dead.”

“And I think a big people, I think there's a big rich ecosystem of people finding whisper and people want the same thing with Voxer. It's much stronger than whisper.”

“There's many other sort of product surfaces within the app today that are more LM powered, where it's more open-ended, real tutoring, where we actually give you feedback on what you said in the semantics and so on. So that stuff is more like whisper powered, m…”

“There were four of us in the room, we all closed our eyes, and none of us had any idea, and the model got it right. So, I mean, superhuman.”

“Naveen's actually releasing something called monologue. You know, it's kind of like, I think a better whisper flow for the things that we do can run locally.”

“The big difference right now is still, like, the cost difference of doing speaker diarization this way, or doing transcription this way, is a huge difference to the pipeline that we've built up.”

“Whisper doesn't work in Arabic that well. Right. So we had to figure out how to make something work in Arabic, but it can't be bad because Almost all transcription is bad in Arabic, right? There's just not enough training that's been done on that language.”

“And so whisper V two is better at some things than whisper V three. And so it didn't seem that worthwhile to ship whisper V three compared to like the other things in our priorities. I think we still will at some point, but yeah, it's just, you know, there's a…”

“I learned, like, we did not make the developer experience very good. It was very complicated like, because we were using, like, local whisper, local models, and, like, getting it to work on CUDA, Mac, Windows. We didn't do a good job, so it was very difficult …”

“We actually, I think, published like, made a contribution to Jax to make it, like, 10 times faster to train Whisper.”