Whisper
OpenAI's robust speech-to-text model with multilingual support.
Files, images and media PyPI MIT Speech to text
How Whisper is used
Whisper is a dependency in 7 of the 6,208 public GitHub projects set up for AI coding agents that we scanned, too few to describe it from them alone. Our scan also samples projects by dependency (Solana 2,661, Ethereum and EVM 1,496, 3D and games 2,818, agent frameworks and SDKs 10,983); counting those, it appears in 80 projects, and what it is used with below comes from all of them. Projects that use it most often also use python-dotenv (80.0%), NumPy (78.8%), OpenAI Python Library (70.0%).
AgentGid articles about Whisper
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A viral post lists 10 GitHub repos that replace paid tools, from yt-dlp and Ollama to n8n and Bitwarden. We read every license and project page: four come with conditions the post skips, and here is what AgentGid's data says about the AI ones.
Whisper popularity over time
Gid Score 67: downloads 69, use in agent projects 48, GitHub stars 90, downloads trend 56 (each 0-100). How it is calculated.
Often used with Whisper
| python-dotenv | 80.0% of Whisper projects · 8.7× more than average |
|---|---|
| NumPy | 78.8% of Whisper projects · 13.5× more than average |
| OpenAI Python Library | 70.0% of Whisper projects · 17.7× more than average |
| Requests | 68.8% of Whisper projects · 10.1× more than average |
| Pydantic | 65.0% of Whisper projects · 7.5× more than average |
| LangChain | 63.7% of Whisper projects · 31.4× more than average |
| pandas | 55.0% of Whisper projects · 12.8× more than average |
| FastAPI | 55.0% of Whisper projects · 7.3× more than average |
From all 80 projects in our scan that use Whisper, including the dependency samples.
Install
| Package | pip install openai-whisper |
|---|---|
| Main stacks | Python (79), React Native / Expo (1) |
| Example projects | malywut/gpt_examples, ruilisi/LingtiStudio, timowhite88/Farnsworth, tylerprogramming/master-crewai-course, NNNightglow/replay |
Alternatives to Whisper
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