Hacker Noon August 2, 2023
Vlad Gheorghe

Are keyboards and touchscreens on the way out?

In the past seven months, the world’s imagination has been captured by language generation technologies like ChatGPT and Claude. In the meantime, another AI-enabled revolution is quietly unfolding.

It is the advent of unprecedented speech recognition capabilities, thanks to models such as OpenAI’s Whisper. These models allow us to easily communicate with our devices and AI helpers via voice.

The importance of OpenAI’s Whisper was first brought to my attention by

Ethan Mollick’s tweets and this video by AI Explained, which I strongly recommend.

In this article:

  • I explore what Whisper can do and why it is significantly better than other speech recognition tools.

  • I show you how...

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