Whisper API
OpenAI's open-source speech-to-text
Overview
Whisper is OpenAI's open-source multilingual speech-to-text model — also available via the OpenAI API. State of the art for many languages when released. Widely used as a backbone for downstream transcription products.
Pricing
Pricing shown for reference only. These figures reflect RECATOOLS research as of 20 May 2026 and may be out of date or incomplete. This is not financial or purchasing advice — always confirm the current price on the provider’s official website before making any decision.
Use cases
ASEAN Perspective
Whisper API in Southeast Asia
ASEAN-region availability and pricing notes coming soon. Drop the editorial team a note via /contact/ if you can supply local context (Singapore/Malaysia/Indonesia/Thailand/Vietnam).
Whisper is OpenAI's automatic speech-recognition model, available both as open-source weights and as a hosted API. It delivers excellent multilingual transcription and translation accuracy across noisy real-world audio, and the open weights mean teams can self-host for privacy or run it cheaply via the API at roughly $0.006/minute. It is a default choice for developers building transcription, captioning and voice pipelines.
It is a model, not a polished product: there is no diarisation, real-time streaming or speaker labelling out of the box, so you build the surrounding workflow yourself. Southeast Asian language coverage is decent for major tongues but weaker on low-resource regional languages. Best for technical teams comfortable with code; non-developers should look at a packaged transcription service instead.
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