nyrahealth/CrisperWhisper
A Whisper-based automatic speech recognition model that provides verbatim transcription with accurate word-level timestamps and filler detection.

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CrisperWhisper extends OpenAI’s Whisper to produce exact transcriptions of spoken audio, including disfluencies, fillers like um and uh, pauses, and false starts. It achieves improved word-level timestamp accuracy through an adjusted tokenizer and custom attention loss during training. The model was trained to minimize hallucinations and achieved 1st place on the OpenASR Leaderboard.
Frequently asked
- What is nyrahealth/CrisperWhisper?
- A Whisper-based automatic speech recognition model that provides verbatim transcription with accurate word-level timestamps and filler detection.
- Is CrisperWhisper open source?
- Yes — nyrahealth/CrisperWhisper is an open-source project tracked on heatdrop.
- What language is CrisperWhisper written in?
- nyrahealth/CrisperWhisper is primarily written in Python.
- How popular is CrisperWhisper?
- nyrahealth/CrisperWhisper has 975 stars on GitHub.
- Where can I find CrisperWhisper?
- nyrahealth/CrisperWhisper is on GitHub at https://github.com/nyrahealth/CrisperWhisper.