Gpt4o mini transcribe is better and actually realtime. Whisper is trained to encode the entire audio (or at least 30s chunks) and then decode it.

mdrzn 3 hours ago | parent | next [-]

So "gpt4o mini transcribe" is not just whisper v3 under the hood? Btw it's $0.006 / minute

For Whisper API online (with v3 large) I've found "$0.00125 per compute second" which is the cheapest absolute I've ever found.

	▲	breisa 22 minutes ago \| parent \| next [-]
		Deepinfra offers Whisper V3 at 0.00045$ / minute of transcribed audio.
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	▲	GaggiX 3 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		>So it's not just whisper v3 under the hood? Why it should be Whisper v3? They even released an open model: https://huggingface.co/mistralai/Voxtral-Mini-4B-Realtime-26...

emmettm 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

The linked article claims the average word error rate for Voxtral mini v2 is lower than GPT-4o mini transcribe

	▲	GaggiX 3 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Gpt4o mini transcribe is better than whisper, the context is the parent comment.