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Turning Whisper into Real-Time Transcription System

Computation and Language 2023-09-22 v2

Abstract

Whisper is one of the recent state-of-the-art multilingual speech recognition and translation models, however, it is not designed for real time transcription. In this paper, we build on top of Whisper and create Whisper-Streaming, an implementation of real-time speech transcription and translation of Whisper-like models. Whisper-Streaming uses local agreement policy with self-adaptive latency to enable streaming transcription. We show that Whisper-Streaming achieves high quality and 3.3 seconds latency on unsegmented long-form speech transcription test set, and we demonstrate its robustness and practical usability as a component in live transcription service at a multilingual conference.

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@article{arxiv.2307.14743,
  title  = {Turning Whisper into Real-Time Transcription System},
  author = {Dominik Macháček and Raj Dabre and Ondřej Bojar},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2307.14743},
  year   = {2023}
}

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