Whisper
Productby OpenAI
Heard in 17 episodes across 11 shows since Jul 2026
Whisper is an automatic speech recognition (ASR) machine-learning model created by OpenAI for transcribing spoken audio into text and supporting speech translation across multiple languages. It was trained on 680,000 hours of multilingual and multitask supervised data and released as open-source software in September 2022.
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Mentions of Whisper per 1,000 mentions of anything, 7-day rolling, across the podcasts PodLume Trends follows.
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| Day | Share (7-day) | Mentions |
|---|---|---|
| Jul 16 | 0.73‰ | 1 |
| Aug 5 | 0.16‰ | 1 |
| Aug 17 | 0.03‰ | 1 |
| Aug 22 | 0.07‰ | 1 |
| Aug 24 | 0.07‰ | 1 |
| Aug 25 | 0.14‰ | 2 |
| Aug 26 | 0.17‰ | 1 |
| Aug 31 | 0.13‰ | 1 |
| Sep 1 | 0.10‰ | 1 |
| Sep 17 | 0.06‰ | 2 |
| Oct 3 | 0.03‰ | 1 |
| Oct 5 | 0.11‰ | 3 |
| Oct 6 | 0.19‰ | 3 |
What experts have said about Whisper
3 statements · 3 positive
Whisper provides high-quality voice transcription and improves wording automatically.
“this thing is like very good. And also like, it adds words.”
Open the episode · GYG’s Blowout Result, Adir’s Luggage Startup, Sydney's Pullman Five and Culture Amp’s AI FightListen at 3:29
Whisper transcribes Adam Schwab’s speech at roughly 200 words per minute accurately.
“mine was sort of hovering around the 200 words a minute mark. And it was getting it pretty accurately.”
Open the episode · GYG’s Blowout Result, Adir’s Luggage Startup, Sydney's Pullman Five and Culture Amp’s AI FightListen at 4:26
OpenAI Whisper currently transcribes speech much better than Siri and comparable systems.
“transcription with OpenAI's whisper was working so well compared to what I'm familiar with from Siri and like a few other systems”
Open the episode · #333 – Andrej Karpathy: Tesla AI, Self-Driving, Optimus, Aliens, and AGIListen at 3:24:05
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Episodes
17 episodes featuring Whisper, newest first
- Oct 6, 2026
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AI augments judgment across finance, healthcare and designTBPNOct 6, 2026 - Oct 6, 2026
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- Oct 5, 2026
AI spending concentrates among power usersThe a16z ShowOct 5, 2026 - Oct 3, 2026
AI agents expose the gap between autonomy and accountabilityThe WAN ShowOct 3, 2026