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In A Whisper - 1920x1200 by /\lex (cc by)

Whisper, from OpenAI, is an open source tool you can run on your own computer that "approaches human level robustness and accuracy on English speech recognition"

Tackling the important questions: What is this voice saying?

Styven Magnes : Speech balloons by Marc Wathieu (cc by-nc)

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