whisper
✓OpenAI's general-purpose speech recognition model. Supports 99 languages, transcription, translation to English, and language identification. Six model sizes from tiny (39M params) to large (1550M params). Use for speech-to-text, podcast transcription, or multilingual audio processing. Best for robust, multilingual ASR.
Installation
SKILL.md
| Model | Parameters | English-only | Multilingual | Speed | VRAM |
| tiny | 39M | ✓ | ✓ | 32x | 1 GB | | base | 74M | ✓ | ✓ | 16x | 1 GB | | small | 244M | ✓ | ✓ | 6x | 2 GB | | medium | 769M | ✓ | ✓ | 2x | 5 GB | | large | 1550M | ✗ | ✓ | 1x | 10 GB | | turbo | 809M | ✗ | ✓ | 8x | 6 GB |
Recommendation: Use turbo for best speed/quality, base for prototyping
OpenAI's general-purpose speech recognition model. Supports 99 languages, transcription, translation to English, and language identification. Six model sizes from tiny (39M params) to large (1550M params). Use for speech-to-text, podcast transcription, or multilingual audio processing. Best for robust, multilingual ASR. Source: ovachiever/droid-tings.
Facts (cite-ready)
Stable fields and commands for AI/search citations.
- Install command
npx skills add https://github.com/ovachiever/droid-tings --skill whisper- Source
- ovachiever/droid-tings
- Category
- ""Writing
- Verified
- ✓
- First Seen
- 2026-02-01
- Updated
- 2026-02-18
Quick answers
What is whisper?
OpenAI's general-purpose speech recognition model. Supports 99 languages, transcription, translation to English, and language identification. Six model sizes from tiny (39M params) to large (1550M params). Use for speech-to-text, podcast transcription, or multilingual audio processing. Best for robust, multilingual ASR. Source: ovachiever/droid-tings.
How do I install whisper?
Open your terminal or command line tool (Terminal, iTerm, Windows Terminal, etc.) Copy and run this command: npx skills add https://github.com/ovachiever/droid-tings --skill whisper Once installed, the skill will be automatically configured in your AI coding environment and ready to use in Claude Code or Cursor
Where is the source repository?
https://github.com/ovachiever/droid-tings
Details
- Category
- ""Writing
- Source
- skills.sh
- First Seen
- 2026-02-01