Whisper Large V3 is OpenAI's open-source automatic speech recognition model offering both audio transcription and translation. It supports 99+ languages and accepts common audio formats including mp3, mp4, wav, webm, flac, and ogg. With 1,550M parameters, it achieves a 10.3% word error rate and is well-suited for noise-robust, multilingual transcription in demanding conditions. Supports timestamp granularities at word and segment levels.
Modalities
Price
$0.0015/minute
Released
May 1, 2026
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Use openai/whisper-large-v3 with the OpenRouter API:
OpenRouter provides a speech-to-text API that transcribes audio into text. Send base64-encoded audio with a model, and receive the transcribed text in JSON.
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Transcribes audio into text. Accepts base64-encoded audio input and returns the transcribed text.
https://openrouter.ai/api/v1/audio/transcriptionsBearer $OPENROUTER_API_KEYapplication/jsonoptional — your site URL, for rankingsoptional — your site name, for rankingsopenai/whisper-large-v3| Name | Type | Default | Description |
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max_tokens | integer | — | This sets the upper limit for the number of tokens the model can generate in response. |
temperature | float | 1 | This setting influences the variety in the model's responses. |
top_p | float | 1 | This setting limits the model's choices to a percentage of likely tokens: only the top tokens whose probabilities add up to P. |
stop | array | — | Stop generation immediately if the model encounter any token specified in the stop array. |
frequency_penalty | float | 0 | This setting aims to control the repetition of tokens based on how often they appear in the input. |
presence_penalty | float | 0 | Adjusts how often the model repeats specific tokens already used in the input. |
top_k | integer | 0 | This limits the model's choice of tokens at each step, making it choose from a smaller set. |
repetition_penalty | float | 1 | Helps to reduce the repetition of tokens from the input. |
logit_bias | map | — | Accepts a JSON object that maps tokens (specified by their token ID in the tokenizer) to an associated bias value from -100 to 100. |
min_p | float | 0 | Represents the minimum probability for a token to be considered, relative to the probability of the most likely token. |