Whisper OpenAI is the API access point for OpenAI's industry-leading open-source speech recognition model, providing developers with state-of-the-art transcription and translation capabilities through a simple REST interface. The API supports 57 languages, handles various audio qualities and accents with remarkable robustness, and offers both transcription and translation to English in a single call. Developers building voice applications, transcription services, accessibility tools, and voice-controlled interfaces use Whisper API to integrate professional-grade speech recognition without the complexity of self-hosting the model.