OpenAI: Whisper
openai/whisper-1
active
stt
1 provider
OpenAI's general-purpose open-source multilingual speech recognition model, synchronous only and the only OpenAI STT model returning word-level timestamps.
AuthorOpenAI
Languages1 languages
Statusactive
Providers
Different providers can host the same model. Choose one provider when you need a fixed backend, or let routing select among them.
ProviderSlugPer hourLatencyiFor TTS, latency is measured as time to first byte of audio. For STT, latency is measured as time to first token.ModesUptime
OpenAI
4 params
openai
$0.36
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Synchronous
Supported languages
1 languages
English
en
Features
Speech to text
Transcribes spoken audio to text.
speech_to_text
Synchronous
Transcribes a fully-submitted audio file in a single synchronous request via POST /v1/audio/transcriptions.
synchronous
Multilingual transcription
Supports 99 languages.
multilingual_transcription
Word-level timestamps
Returns word-level timestamps via verbose_json + timestamp_granularities.
word_timestamps
Code
ElevenLabs SDK streaming STT
Streams microphone or file audio through the ElevenLabs-compatible allmodels route.
import { ElevenLabsClient } from "elevenlabs";
const client = new ElevenLabsClient({
apiKey: process.env.ALLMODELS_API_KEY,
baseUrl: "https://api.allmodels.io/el"
});
const connection = await client.speechToText.realtime.connect({
modelId: "openai/whisper-1",
languageCode: "en"
}, {
queryParams: {
provider: {
"only": [
"openai"
]
}
}
});
// Send audio frames to connection, then handle transcript events.